On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:26:43PM -0600, linas wrote:
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:40:46PM +0000, Jason Lunz was heard to remark:
md@xxxxxxxx said:
>> -- kernel scans /dev/hda1, looking for md superblock
>> -- kernel assembles devices according to info found in the superblocks
>> -- udev creates /dev/md0, etc.=20
> The problem is that some users and distributions build the drivers as
> modules and/or disable in-kernel auto-assembly.
Not only that, the raid developers themselves consider autoassembly
deprecated.
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/373620
Hmm. My knee-jerk, didn't-stop-to-think-about-it reaction is that
this is one of the finest features of linux raid, so why remove it?
please, no, not again:
this particular horse has been beaten to death many times before.
the in kernel auto assembly should be removed for good (read the
linux-raid list archive to understand why)
it should be replaced by auto assembly in user space (mdadm), which does
not suffer from the problems that in-kernel has. neither it does suffer
from a poor configuration file like the (unmaintained) raidtools had.
and is much more cleaner and maintainable.
L.
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