Hi, I tried a while back to use the newer metadata formats on my mdadm RAID5 on a few machines, and discovered that the kernel auto-assembly will only work with v0.90 metadata, not 1.0 or greater. Is there a solid reason for this? Based one what I can find regarding the differences in the metadata formats, and looking at the existing md code, it seems this is largely just because no one has had the time or motivation to change the code to support auto-assembly on the newer metdata formats. I am told that the "correct" solution is to embed a small initramfs to bring the RAID arrays online instead, before the real rootfs is loaded. I'd like to avoid this if possible, as I haven't had to use an initramfs for normal booting in the past, as long as I stay on metadata 0.90. So I thought I'd ask what the official stance is on this. Thanks!, -- Joshua Kinard Gentoo/MIPS kumba@xxxxxxxxxx 4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28 "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between." --Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic -- 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
