From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: problems with raid=noautodetect Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 13:10:24 -0400 Message-ID: <447C7C80.3080002@tmr.com> References: <4471B188.3060400@umit.at> <17522.15774.526526.244768@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060526075308.GC8203@percy.comedia.it> <17530.30389.862288.268450@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17530.30389.862288.268450@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: Luca Berra , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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 CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979