From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:15:00 +1100 Message-ID: <20100218101500.18c53517@notabene.brown> References: <201002140251.59668.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100217130103.3ca65ef3@notabene.brown> <201002170338.47302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201002170338.47302.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Volker Armin Hemmann Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" , Bill Davidsen , Michael Evans , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:38:46 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Neil Brown wrote: > > > I will not be removing 0.90 or auto-assemble from the kernel in the > > foreseeable future. > > None the less, I recommend weaning yourself from your dependence on it. > > initramfs is the future, embrace it. > > > > NeilBrown > > a future that is worse than the present. For what reason? Reason: some things are easier to implement and maintain in userspace. Implementing them in the kernel would likely produce a worse products. Worse than the present: only if you refuse to embrace it and there-by contribute to fixing/improving it. NeilBrown