On 01/09/2011 17:33, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: [...]
Auto-assembly and metadata are not related: I regularly use 1.2 metadata on non-boot partitions and they auto-assemble fine.
Not possible. The kernel will not auto-assemble anything other than 0.90 metadata. You must have mdadm in your initrd.
However lilo won't boot on anything other than 0.9, this I found the hard way :)
I have had lilo boot from 1.0 metadata just fine. It does need to be the metadata-at-the-end layout though, hence 1.0 but not 1.1 or 1.2.
Kernel auto-assembly seems quite useful and desirable to me, especially when using, say, initrd to unlock dm-crypt partitions (no need to configure madadm.conf in the initrd).
Neil Brown took the decision ages ago not to add any more what ought to be userland use-once tools into the kernel, and this is the general direction across the whole kernel. If you have an initrd unlocking a dm-crypt partition you might as well have mdadm in there as well starting your arrays.
BTW, what is that 0xDA type?
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