On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Paul Jimenez wrote:
> This patch is based on the md.c that shipped with the 2.2.11 kernel; it
> calls md_stop() on all RAID partitions still around at shutdown/reboot
> time, which allows one to have a small (non-RAID) /boot partition with
> a kernel on it and a larger (RAID1) partition that's /.
auto-stop has been in the newest driver for a long time. The RAID1 code in
stock 2.2.11 is considered old and buggy (eg. in the case of disk failure)
- it's recommended to upgrade to the newest RAID driver and do an mkraid
--upgrade.
-- mingo