On Monday November 21, jeff@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi all, > > Debian is a little slow tracking mdadm, and currently ships version > 1.9 in unstable. Of course, I want to try out the fancy new features > in mdadm 2.1 to match my shiny new 2.6.14 (Debian stock) Linux kernel. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337903 > > Is upgrading mdadm the type of thing that requires exquisite care, > meticulous expertise, and a sacrificial goat to the data safety gods? > Or can a naive oaf like me blurt the latest unpatched mdadm onto a > production system and probably come out just fine? It should be fairly hard to get it wrong, except for one little issue. The debian maintainer of mdadm chose to relocate '/etc/mdadm.conf' to '/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf'. So you might have your mdadm.conf in the later location, but a freshly compiled mdadm will look for it in the former location. You should be able to work around this though. So, go for it!!! NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
