On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 09:10:44AM -0400, Laurence Oberman wrote: > Apologies Christoph and Mariusz, this could have definitely done with > more of an explanation. > > We have customers complaining about a regression in mdadm since these > changes happened. They have 1000's of raid devices that can no longer > be started because they have ":" in the name. Example > mdadm: Value "tbz:pv1" cannot be set as devname. Reason: Not POSIX > compatible. > > Should we add a --legacy flag where the original behavior is still an > option, what are your thoughts ? I don't really care either way, just please write an understandable commit message.
