On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:20:58AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> My first inclination is not to fix this problem.
>
> I consider md auto-detect to be a legacy feature.
> I don't use it and I recommend that other people don't use it.
> However I cannot justify removing it, so it stays there.
> Having this limitation could be seen as a good motivation for some
> more users to stop using it.
>
> Why not use auto-detect?
[Arguments deleted]
Well, if autodetection is removed, what is then the preferred
way of booting off a raid-1 device?
Kernel parameters?
An initrd with mdadm just for this? Some people want to do even
partition detection from initrd, in order to have a smaller
kernel. We aren't there yet though.
Autotetect is nice from an administrator viewpoint - compile
it in and it "just works". The trouble when you connect
an array from some other machine is to be expected, but
that isn't exactly everyday stuff.
Helge Hafting
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