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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problems with raid=noautodetect
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:10:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <447C7C80.3080002@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17530.30389.862288.268450@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown wrote:

>On Friday May 26, bluca@comedia.it 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.
>>    
>>
>
>As you note, we think alike on this :-)
>
>  
>
>>2) deprecate the "DEVICE" keyword issuing a warning when it is found in
>>the configuration file
>>    
>>
>
>Not sure I'm so keen on that, at least not in the near term.
>
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.

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-22 12:41 problems with raid=noautodetect Florian Dazinger
2006-05-22 22:39 ` Neil Brown
2006-05-24 12:47   ` problems with raid=noautodetect - solved Florian Dazinger
2006-05-26  0:10     ` Nix
2006-05-26  7:53   ` problems with raid=noautodetect Luca Berra
2006-05-26  7:56     ` Luca Berra
2006-05-29  4:21     ` Neil Brown
2006-05-29  5:02       ` Luca Berra
2006-05-29  8:38       ` Michael Tokarev
2006-05-29  8:54         ` Luca Berra
2006-05-30 17:10       ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-05-30 17:30         ` Luca Berra
2006-05-31 13:23           ` Bill Davidsen

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