Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754801Ab0BODUI (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:20:08 -0500 Received: from tritonia.xxlwebhosting.nl ([81.4.88.63]:40993 "EHLO tritonia.xxlwebhosting.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754565Ab0BODUG (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:20:06 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 14391 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:20:06 EST Message-ID: <4B788525.6000608@grumpydevil.homelinux.org> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:05 +0100 From: Rudy Zijlstra User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090820) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Asdo , Justin Piszcz , Michael Evans , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. References: <4877c76c1002111752h23e14f7aibe58a89181e6f493@mail.gmail.com> <4B77044B.1020609@zytor.com> <4B7719C1.1060400@zytor.com> <4B785C49.7010105@shiftmail.org> <4B786898.8030309@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <4B786898.8030309@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: { X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - tritonia.xxlwebhosting.nl X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - grumpydevil.homelinux.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1045 Lines: 32 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > In Fedora 12, for example, Dracut tries to make the distinction between > whole RAID device and a partition device, and utterly fails -- often > resulting in data loss. > > i do not use Fedora/redhat and do not intent to ever try them again... still, the point is valid > With a pointer to the beginning this would have been a trivial thing to > detect. > > IMO it would make sense to support autoassemble for 1.0 superblocks, and > making them the default. The purpose would be to get everyone off 0.9. > However, *any* default is better than 1.1. > > -hpa > > As long is autodetect is supported in the kernel, i am willing to upgrade to 1.0 superblocks. BUT i need the autodetect in the kernel, as i refuse to use initrd for production servers. Cheers, Rudy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/