Hi Greg,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:34:09AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

As far as I know nobody has mucked around with the code for autodetect
stuff on non-DOS disklabels.  Neil Brown has been advocating that people
not use the partition types, and let the userspace tools set things up. 
You can find his arguments in the archives for this list (info
linux-raid to majordomo@vger.kernel.org should get you some links to the
archives).

Thanks for the information. I've had a flick through the archives and
read up why Neil disagrees with autodetection. However, in my case, the
RAID configuration is reasonably simple and initrd opens up a whole
world of hurt that I can just do without (I tried to go down this road -
admittedly it was 3 in the morning!). I'll create the patch anyway, although it's likely to be a week or so as I'm moving house this weekend. 

I figure that it's more useful to have the choice between autodetection or running raidstart under initrd. 

Cheers,

Beezly