Bug 174559

Summary: Enhancement+Patch: Use mdadm with mkinitrd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gabriel Schulhof <gabrielschulhof>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Patch to modify mkinitrd to use mdadm none

Description Gabriel Schulhof 2005-11-30 01:46:47 UTC 
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Description of problem:
This patch causes mkinitrd to add mdadm.static to <initrd>/bin and to have <initrd>/init run mdadm instead of raid0run.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. The initrd doesn't work with RAID1.
2. Patch mkinitrd to use mdadm
3. mkinitrd produces a working initrd.
  

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Comment 1 Gabriel Schulhof 2005-11-30 01:48:44 UTC 
Created attachment 121621 [details]
Patch to modify mkinitrd to use mdadm
Comment 2 Gabriel Schulhof 2005-11-30 01:51:21 UTC 
s/raid0run/raidautorun/
Comment 3 Peter Jones 2006-02-03 23:13:22 UTC 
What do you mean by "the initrd doesn't work with RAID1"?  It works fine for me
with raid 1.

Even so, why would we want to add a 700k binary to the initrd as the "solution"?
Comment 4 Gabriel Schulhof 2006-02-04 03:45:43 UTC 
Well, I tried it with RAID1 and it didn't work until I changed the script to use
mdadm.

You would add a 700k binary because, AFAIK, the tools it currently uses are
deprecated. mdadm is the new standard. Also, mdadm doesn't depend on the RAID
members being detected. They are specified on the command line. Of course I
recognize the flip-side, which is that the mkinitrd won't know how to wake up in
a modified RAID environment.
Comment 5 petrosyan 2008-03-10 01:11:31 UTC 
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained.

Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the
current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the
corresponding Fedora version.