Description of problem:

mkinitrd generated images do not support dmraid based software RAID. That 
complicates boot-up on dmraid based partitions and requires manula modification 
of initrd image. It also complicates auto-mounting of dmraid based partitions.

Solution:

Here is a patch to mkinitrd that enables dmraid
initialization during init.

I developed it to enable proper initialization of LVM
partitions hosted on dmraid based software RAID.

Modified mkinird allows to optionally turn off
dmraid support in genereated image by passing 
--omit-dmraid command line key.

My changes are tested on CentOS 4.1 2.6.9-11.EL
kernel.

Hopefully this may be useful to people with similar
software/hardware configurations.

Is anything else that I could/should do to make this patch helpful to as
many people as possible and ideally make it part of
Red Hat distribution?

Thank you,
Hovhannes Tumanyan, CISSP