greg@enjellic.com wrote:

On Nov 10,  7:22am, "Neil F Brown" wrote:
} Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdadm-3.1 has been withdrawn

Good morning to everyone, hope the week is progressing well.

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It may be heresy but I would suggest that if the defaults change we
should also implement support for auto-starting version 1.x devices,
or some appropriate subset of them.

I understand and appreciate the concerns of the userspace start
community.  However, we do a lot of storage on very dedicated systems
and I have spent far more time unsnarling systems with blown
initrd/initramfs setups and other boot issues than I have recovering
from starting RAID volumes on the wrong box.  Thats why I don't let
udev anywhere near production machines and I am still living on 0.9
metadata in spite of its limitations.

UNIX has always been about allowing people to shoot themselves in the
foot if they so desire.  I think an acceptable compromise would be to
move toward a default of disabled auto-detection with the option to
turn on detection of all meta-data types if people choose to do that.

  

+1


Cheers,

Rudy