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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Aug  1, 2006, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:
> 
>> I rarely think you are totally wrong about anything RAID, but I do
>> believe you have missed the point of autodetect. It is intended to
>> work as it does now, building the array without depending on some user
>> level functionality.
> 
> Well, it clearly depends on at least some user level functionality
> (the ioctl that triggers autodetect).  Going from that to a
> full-fledged mdadm doesn't sound like such a big deal to me.
> 
>> I don't personally see the value of autodetect for putting together
>> the huge number of drives people configure. I see this as a way to
>> improve boot reliability, if someone needs 64 drives for root and
>> boot, they need to read a few essays on filesystem
>> configuration. However, I'm aware that there are some really bizarre
>> special cases out there.
> 
> There's LVM.  If you have to keep root out of the VG just because
> people say so, you lose lots of benefits from LVM, such as being able
> to grow root with the system running, take snapshots of root, etc.
> 
But it's MY system. I don't have to anything. More to the point, growing 
root while the system is running is done a lot less than booting. In 
general the root f/s has very little in it, and that's a good thing.

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