Hello,

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.

dmraid initrd initialization can be optionally turned off by passing --omit-dmraid command line key to mkinitrd.

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.

Can someone suggest/clarify if there is anything else I could/should do to make this patch helpful to as many people as possible and ideally make it part of CentOS distribution?

Thank you very much, Hovhannes Tumanyan

echo "       [--omit-dmraid]" >&2

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  --omit-dmraid)
      nodmraid=yes
      ;;

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if [ -z "$nodmraid" -a "$kernelmajor" == "2.6" ];

then

inst /sbin/dmraid.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/dmraid"

fi

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if [ -z "$nodmraid" ]; then echo "echo Activating software raid (dmraid)" >>

$RCFILE

echo "dmraid -ay" >> $RCFILE

fi

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echo "       [--omit-dmraid]" >&2

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--omit-dmraid) nodmraid=yes ;;

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if [ -z "$nodmraid" -a "$kernelmajor" == "2.6" ]; then inst /sbin/dmraid.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/dmraid" fi

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if [ -z "$nodmraid" ]; then echo "echo Activating software raid (dmraid)" >> $RCFILE echo "dmraid -ay" >> $RCFILE fi