Bug#616729: mdadm includes stuff in initrd even if this is not needed

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi Martin.

Well I really know what you mean be "complexity".
Some time ago I've started writing a wiki
(http://wiki.debian.org/AdvancedStartupShutdownWithMultilayeredBlockDevices) which should cover all kinds of problems and potential solutions, regarding the boot/shutdown process when multiple block-dev layers are in use.

Unfortunately, little interest was shown by the concerned people within
Debian... so this got basically stalled (or dead).


Nevertheless a _very_ rough solution should be to build up kind of a
tree of all block devices, and in the end take every child nodes below
the root-fs and resume-devices.


cryptsetup seems to do some _limited_ tests already whether it is needed
in the initrds or not.... but things might be more complicated for MD of
course.


Chris.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 5677 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mdadm-devel/attachments/20110307/91a30468/attachment.bin>