also sprach Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> [2010.01.30.0839 +1300]:
> > > What happens if the hostname is changed but the initramfs is not
> > > rebuilt?
> > How likely is that to happen? How likely is it to happen that the
> > hostname is changed, an array built (thus carrying the new
> > hostname), and the initramfs not rebuilt?
> It looks likely to me when building a new system.
Right, but if you muck around with the system at this level,
I assume you can recover the system if it fails to bring up the RAID
by itself using the initramfs console.
Anyway, I don't really see a way to guard against the problems, nor
a way to solve it otherwise, short of running update-initramfs from
the hostname binary or grub trying to read /etc/hostname and passing
it via kernel command line. I guess I could try this, but it sounds
fragile and hard.
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