On Wednesday, July 15 2009, Dan Williams said: > mdadm-3.0 has facilities to prevent assembly of certain metadata types > [1] or arrays with certain uuids [2]. I wonder if we also need a > facility to prevent auto-assembly of arrays *not* listed in > mdadm.conf? So the mdadm.conf file installed in the initramfs would > only identify the root array and all other randomly identified md > devices would be ignored (rather than assembled with a foreign name). > > Thoughts? There is no mdadm.conf in the initramfs -- in fact, the initramfs may not even be generated on the system that you're booting and instead be "generic" for the kernel in question Jeremy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html