On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:20:58AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > My first inclination is not to fix this problem. > > I consider md auto-detect to be a legacy feature. > I don't use it and I recommend that other people don't use it. > However I cannot justify removing it, so it stays there. > Having this limitation could be seen as a good motivation for some > more users to stop using it. > > Why not use auto-detect? [Arguments deleted] Well, if autodetection is removed, what is then the preferred way of booting off a raid-1 device? Kernel parameters? An initrd with mdadm just for this? Some people want to do even partition detection from initrd, in order to have a smaller kernel. We aren't there yet though. Autotetect is nice from an administrator viewpoint - compile it in and it "just works". The trouble when you connect an array from some other machine is to be expected, but that isn't exactly everyday stuff. Helge Hafting - 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
