Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdadm-3.1 has been withdrawn

[Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@grumpydevil.homelinux.org>]

greg@enjellic.com wrote:
> On Nov 10,  7:22am, "Neil F Brown" wrote:
> } Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdadm-3.1 has been withdrawn
>
> Good morning to everyone, hope the week is progressing well.
>
> <snip>
> It may be heresy but I would suggest that if the defaults change we
> should also implement support for auto-starting version 1.x devices,
> or some appropriate subset of them.
>
> I understand and appreciate the concerns of the userspace start
> community.  However, we do a lot of storage on very dedicated systems
> and I have spent far more time unsnarling systems with blown
> initrd/initramfs setups and other boot issues than I have recovering
> from starting RAID volumes on the wrong box.  Thats why I don't let
> udev anywhere near production machines and I am still living on 0.9
> metadata in spite of its limitations.
>
> UNIX has always been about allowing people to shoot themselves in the
> foot if they so desire.  I think an acceptable compromise would be to
> move toward a default of disabled auto-detection with the option to
> turn on detection of all meta-data types if people choose to do that.
>
>   
+1


Cheers,

Rudy