Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Bill ,

On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, you wrote:
> > > In other words, 'auto-detection' for 1.x format devices is using an
> > > initrd/initramfs.
> >
> > which makes 1.x format useless for everybody who does not want to deal with 
> > initrd/initramfs.
>
> You make this sound like some major big deal. are you running your own 
> distribution? In most cases mkinitrd does the right thing when you "make 
> install" the kernel, and if you are doing something in the build so complex 
> that it needs options, you really should understand the options and be sure 
> you're doing what you want.
>
> Generally this involves preloading a module or two, and if you need it every 
> time you probably should have built it in, anyway.
>
> My opinion...
	My Opinion as well .  That is one of the many reasons why I have my '/' 
autoassemble .  And do to this I am permanently stuck at 0.90 version of the 
raid table .  No big shakes for that .  But at sometime in the past there was a 
discussion to have the 0.90 raid table be removed ,  NOW THAT SCARES THE H?LL 
OUT OF ME .  So far Neil has not done so .

	I am unaware of any record from Neil or other maintainer(s) of the 
/md/ device tree saying that they will not remove the 0.90 table and the 
autoassembly functions there .  I'd very much like to hear a statement saying 
there will not be a removal of the autoassembly functions for 0.90 raid table 
from the kernel tree .

		Tia ,  JimL
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