Re: RAID5 kicks non-fresh drives

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:37:29PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote:
>> i strongly believe it is not correct to let kernel auto-assemble devices
>> kernel auto-assembly should be disable and activation should be handled
>> by mdadm only!
>
>it's a convenience/safety tradeoff, like so many other cases.
>without kernel auto-assembly, it's somewhat more annoying to 
>boot onto MD raid, right?  you are forced to put MD config stuff
>into your initrd, etc.
yes, it is, but initrd are generated by scripts nowadays, so you wont
even notice.

>I don't see why auto-assembly is such a bad thing.  it means you 
please read the list archives, it has been explained to boredom

>the only argument I see against (kernel) auto-assembly is the 
>general principle of moving things out of the kernel where possible.
>but that's not a hard/fast rule anyway, so...
please read the list archives, it has been explained to boredom

Regards,
L.

and please, 
do not To: or Cc: me, i do actively read the list.

L.

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