Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:05:42PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
>And I agree -D has less chance of finding a stale superblock, but it's
>also true that it has no chance of finding non-stale superblocks on
Well it might be a matter of personal preference, but i would prefer
an initrd doing just the minumum necessary to mount the root filesystem
(and/or activating resume from a swap device), and leaving all the rest
to initscripts, then an initrd that tries to do everything.

>devices that aren't even started.  So, as a method of getting all the
>right information in the event of system failure and rescuecd boot, it
>leaves something to be desired ;-)  In other words, I'd rather use a
>mode that finds everything and lets me remove the stale than a mode that
>might miss something.  But, that's a matter of personal choice.
In case of a rescuecd boot, you will probably not have any md devices
activated, and you will probably run "mdadm -Es" to check what md are
available, the data should be still on the disk, else you would be hosed
anyway.

L.

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