Re: Patch to add RAID autostart to IBM partitions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 10:48:22PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, guys:
> 
> This is an implementation of essentially the same mechanism which exists
> in msdos.c and sun.c. It is needed when initrd tries to mount a root
> on a RAID. One might ask, why the heck initrd cannot do it without a
> kernel help. The answer is in the contrived API of the MD driver: there
> is no way to ask "assemble md0"; applications must list components.
> Anyway, if msdos.c does it, surely ibm.c ought to do it as well.

We had this for a few partition types (and full block devices) already
and it's been vetoed.  Use mdadm from initrd/initramfs instead.

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