Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-05 Thread David M. Strang
On Jan 5, 2006, Daniel Pittman wrote: Perhaps you would be better served by starting with a fully functional initramfs (or initrd) implementation that is in active use, then extending (or adapting) it to do what you wanted? Ubuntu Linux and Debian unstable have the 'initramfs-tools' package whi

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel Pittman
"David M. Strang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > I'm not very initrd savvy; and I'm having a heck of a time making the > initramfs instructions in mdadm work. Does anyone have a working example > of them? [...] > I've added a /dev directory to the init.cpio.gz as well. It seems like I > ma

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2006-01-04 Thread David M. Strang
On Dec 6, 2005, Andre Noll wrote: Don't we need /dev/console as well? About the example script: == #!/bin/sh echo 'Auto-assembling boot md array' mkdir /proc mount -t proc proc /proc if [ -n "$rootuuid" ] then arg=--uuid=$rootuuid elif [ -n "$mdmino

Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2005-12-06 Thread Andre Noll
On 17:08, Neil Brown wrote: > Release 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of > functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of > 'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be > most welcome. >From README.initramfs: A minimal initr

ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

2005-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.2 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring device arrays us