> The point about backwards compatibility is that things WORK. Must I conclude that you did not read my entire letter? Since we started this small detour talking about media change, let me quote that fragment once more. "[Don't think that I actually propose doing this today as the default, but it would be a very small patch to add this as an optional behaviour. But there is today, and there is the faraway goal. The faraway goal is: no partition table reading in the kernel. And that influences designing today what to do on media change. Already today I would consider it entirely reasonable if there was no automatic partition table reading after a media change.]" No, my suggested changes would not break a single Linux installation in the world. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html