Hi, I run a bunch of home Gentoo systems most of which use mdadm, currently version 3.1.4. I do not currently use initramfs's on any of these systems but figure it's time for me to crawl out of my dark ages swamp and try to become more enlightened. QUESTION: Is there an significant risk that a normal Gentoo system of the stable variety (I.e. - not ~amd64) would encounter any problems booting if mdadm-3.1.4 was rebuilt using the static flag? If it matters most of my RAIDs are metadata-0.9. One is 1.2. If I did encounter a problem and couldn't boot is there a way to recover? Please note, I'm not asking right now about using mdadm from within an initramfs. I'm only trying to ensure that if I rebuild mdadm with the static flag the current system is still likely to boot OK. Folks on the Gentoo list say they didn't have any problems switching, but they switched a long, long time ago so I'm just trying to be extra sure. Thanks in advance, Mark -- 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
