Re: let md auto-detect 128+ raid members, fix potential race condition

[Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:20:58AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> My first inclination is not to fix this problem.
> 
> I consider md auto-detect to be a legacy feature.
> I don't use it and I recommend that other people don't use it.
> However I cannot justify removing it, so it stays there.
> Having this limitation could be seen as a good motivation for some
> more users to stop using it.
> 
> Why not use auto-detect?
[Arguments deleted]

Well, if autodetection is removed, what is then the preferred
way of booting off a raid-1 device?

Kernel parameters?

An initrd with mdadm just for this?  Some people want to do even
partition detection from initrd, in order to have a smaller
kernel.  We aren't there yet though.

Autotetect is nice from an administrator viewpoint - compile
it in and it "just works".  The trouble when you connect
an array from some other machine is to be expected, but 
that isn't exactly everyday stuff.  

Helge Hafting