From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: problems with raid=noautodetect Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 09:56:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20060526075604.GD8203@percy.comedia.it> References: <4471B188.3060400@umit.at> <17522.15774.526526.244768@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060526075308.GC8203@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060526075308.GC8203@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 09:53:08AM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: >On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:39:26AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: >>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. > >Neil, >i am seeing a lot of people that fall in this same error, and i would >propose a way of avoiding this problem > >1) make "DEVICE partitions" the default if no device line is specified. oops, just read your 2.5 announce, you already did that :) >2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in >the configuration file >3) introduce "DEVICEFILTER" or similar keyword with the same meaning at >the actual "DEVICE" keyboard >4) optionally add an "EXCLUDEDEVICE" keyword with the opposite meaning. > -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \