On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:10:01 +1100 matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote:
> > > > 4. we can add an option to mark the raid as force root. > > > > if we do 4, we should instead add an option to mark something as a > > 'soft root', and leave the current semantics alone. the machines i > > have that are now not going to reboot properly are both used > > remotely, so changing semantics about how they work seems like a > > bad idea. i'm pretty sure i'm not the only one who does this. > > i think i like this the best. > > oh, actually. we already (can) have "soft root". by marking > something as auto-configure, and booting from it. > > what we want to change from what the past has been is to enable > the auto-configured raids to be used as root when booted from, > without them being marked -A root. we should still keep the > current -A root semantics, and then people can stop using -A > root when they don't need to force it, and just use -A yes. FWIW: I like this idea the best. It also doesn't break any existing installations. Later... Greg Oster
