Re: problems with raid=noautodetect

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Neil Brown wrote:

>On Friday May 26, bluca@comedia.it wrote:
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>>On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
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>>>Presumably you have a 'DEVICE' line in mdadm.conf too?  What is it.
>>>My first guess is that it isn't listing /dev/sdd? somehow.
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>>Neil,
>>i am seeing a lot of people that fall in this same error, and i would
>>propose a way of avoiding this problem
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>>1) make "DEVICE partitions" the default if no device line is specified.
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>As you note, we think alike on this :-)
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>>2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in
>>the configuration file
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>Not sure I'm so keen on that, at least not in the near term.
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Let's not start warning and depreciating powerful features because they 
can be misused... If I wanted someone to make decisions for me I would 
be using this software at all.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979