Bug#567468: md homehost

2010-02-23 Thread Piergiorgio Sartor
Hi, Both filesystems and LVM have UUIDs. Does dm-crypt / LUKS have one too? LUKS, of course, has UUID, plain dm-crypt of course not... :-) bye, -- piergiorgio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#567468: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock question.

2010-02-21 Thread Piergiorgio Sartor
Hi, Indeed, it does. However, I could not find out how it does device naming? From what I understand, mdadm will only assemble devices using the name stored in the superblocks iff the homehost matches, so dracut either doesn't provide for this and requires the use of UUIDs to mount

Bug#567468: (boot time consequences of) Linux mdadm superblock question.

2010-02-19 Thread Piergiorgio Sartor
Hi, True. You'd have to update the superblock UUID right after creation of the filesystem. That doesn't sound like a robust strategy to making mdadm.conf optional. it seems that, with dracut, mdadm.conf is optional. There is the kernel boot paramenter rd_NO_MDADMCONF, which forces dracut to