Re: software for making initrd's with raid support

[Luca Berra <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:30:45PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > >Good!  I was working on a mandriva professional 2006 system 2.6.12
> > 2006.0 is EOL
>
> 2006.0 professional is maintained to 2011

you mean cd4?

> > >kernel, and I hacked the mkinitrd to have it generate mdadm.conf etc
> > >- it did not at all look at this. I can send you my patches, but they
> > > are in no way clean.
> > mkinitrd in 2006.0 did generate mdadm.conf and use it, so i don't know
> > what your patches were doing.
>
> the code to generate mdadm.conf was not activated. I made some patches
> to force raid code generation.

really?
if this is the case you should have submitted a bug report.

> > >There was no mention of raid10 in the code either.
> > yes support for raid10 was added after 2006.0 release
> >
> > >I thied to contact Erik Troan - the main author of mkinitrd (and lots of
> > >other stuff:-) - but got a bouncing message for his redhat address.
> > i think Erik does not maintain mkinitrd any more, it is quite an old
> > software.
>
> OK, who maintains it now, and is mkinitrd still a viable - perhaps the
> best - way to make initrd's?
mkinitrd is maintained by RedHat (http://www.redhat.com/)
afaik the person responsible for that package is Peter Jones.
Mandriva up to 2008.0 used a version derived from mkinitrd 4.2.17 codebase, maintained by me.
the upcoming 2008.1 will use a version derived from mkinitrd 6 codebase,
maintained by Olivier Blin.

> Where is the latest mkinitrd available from?
the redhat version is avaliable from any rawhide mirror
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/development/
The mandriva version from any cooker mirror
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors

> Could I use the latest mkinitrd with my 2006.0 system?
i don't think so

> > >And I was about to report this om qa.mandriva.com - but it seems that I
> > >already made contact!
> > if you want a bug fixed on mandriva please send a bug report on
> > qa.mandriva.com, same applies for redhat/fedora.
> > If you have questions to ask, feel free.
>
> Is raid10,f2 supported under the latest haddrake2?

No.


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