Re: Initrd rocks! (was Re: Backporting 2.4.23 kernel packages)
Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
>
> IIRC, There is a parameter to mdadm (--scan?) that could be used for
> this, but when I asked the initrd maintainer I was given a good reason
> why it was not used (sorry; I can't remember what this was now; it might
> simply be that the mdadm code is unreliable, inefficient, or buggy).
The reason is that we need hotplug support or something similar
before RAID autodetection will make sense.
If you don't have the underlying devices there RAID autodetection
will not work.
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