> i strongly believe it is not correct to let kernel auto-assemble devices > kernel auto-assembly should be disable and activation should be handled > by mdadm only! it's a convenience/safety tradeoff, like so many other cases. without kernel auto-assembly, it's somewhat more annoying to boot onto MD raid, right? you are forced to put MD config stuff into your initrd, etc. I don't see why auto-assembly is such a bad thing. it means you shouldn't leave 0xfd partitions sitting around, but that's OK, since 0xfd means exactly and nothing but "please autoassemble this". no worse than leaving inconsistent or erroneous stuff in your mdadm.conf or /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. the only argument I see against (kernel) auto-assembly is the general principle of moving things out of the kernel where possible. but that's not a hard/fast rule anyway, so... - 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
