On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:19:16PM +0100, Molle Bestefich wrote: > I *think* that "the raid developers" may be, for once, choosing words > not-so-wisely when talking about "deprecating autoassembly".
You're right, I should be careful not to imply anything Neil didn't actually say. What he said was: > From: Neil Brown <neilb <at> suse.de> ... > And if other partition styles wanted to add support for raid auto > detect, tell them "no". It is perfectly possible and even preferable > to live without autodetect. We should support legacy usage (those > above) but should discourage any new usage. which is a far cry from officially deprecating anything. My point was that the outlined solution for having udev create /dev/md* nodes could not work on all platforms because it required raid autodetect, and it looks unlikely that raid autodetect will be universally supported. Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
