From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932192AbWAWNAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:00:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932188AbWAWNAv (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:00:51 -0500 Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no ([129.241.93.19]:40651 "EHLO cassarossa.samfundet.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932186AbWAWNAu (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:00:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:00:30 +0100 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" To: Ville Herva Cc: Heinz Mauelshagen , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Neil Brown , Phillip Susi , Jan Engelhardt , "Lincoln Dale (ltd)" , Michael Tokarev , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Message-ID: <20060123130030.GA1082@uio.no> References: <43D02033.4070008@cfl.rr.com> <17360.9233.215291.380922@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060120183621.GA2799@redhat.com> <20060120225724.GW22163@marowsky-bree.de> <20060121000142.GR2801@redhat.com> <20060121000344.GY22163@marowsky-bree.de> <20060121000806.GT2801@redhat.com> <20060121001311.GA22163@marowsky-bree.de> <20060123094418.GX2801@redhat.com> <20060123125420.GE1686@vianova.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060123125420.GE1686@vianova.fi> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.14.3 on a x86_64 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:54:20PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > If you really want the rest of us to convert from md to lvm, you should > perhaps give some attention to thee brittle userland (scripts and and > binaries). If you do not like the LVM userland, you might want to try the EVMS userland, which uses the same kernel code and (mostly) the same on-disk formats, but has a different front-end. > It is very tedious to have to debug a production system for a few hours in > order to get the rootfs mounted after each kernel update. This sounds a bit like an issue with your distribution, which should normally fix initrd/initramfs issues for you. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/