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From: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.15: mdrun, udev -- who creates nodes?
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:58:03 +0100
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linas wrote:
> I was reacting to the following:
> > > From: Neil Brown <neilb <at> suse.de>
> > > It is perfectly possible and even preferable
> > > to live without autodetect.
>
> I didn't see how it could be "preferable", and illustrated this
> with the sysadmin story.

Certainly it isn't, and now I remember the point.

Quoting Luca Berra:
> the in kernel auto assembly should be removed for good
> it should be replaced by auto assembly in user space (mdadm),
> which does not suffer from the problems that in-kernel has.

If people could start saying
 "we need to get rid of in-kernel autodetection"
instead of
 "we need to get rid of autodetection",
I think there would be much less confusion.