also sprach Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> [2010.02.12.0427 +1300]: > This seems to be causing some problems.
I am aware, but going to a conference right now and flying back to Europe next week, so I am unlikely going to be able to do much about it for now. > 1) offer the choice to users > I see from the Lenny mdadm man page that there are 4 (!) different metadata > versions: 0.90, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2. > - Is there any reason to allow users to choose between those (for Squeeze)? > - If so, should all 4 versions be offered or only 0.90 and 1.2? I think they should all be offered, but I think we should make 0.9 the default for squeeze and move to 1.1 only afterwards, once grub-pc knows how to deal with it. > Main problem is that we don't know how an array will be used at > the time the choice will be made. A user may or may not create > a separate /boot partition on a regular partition. mdadm does warn about /boot on array creation btw. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "i love deadlines. i like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- douglas adams
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