Comment 52 for bug 495370

Jools, I think I about to take the plunge, but would like to ask a few questions first. I have been reading all of the mdadm wiki doc, manpages, scripts, rules, etc. until I am just beginning to *think* that I understand the problem somewhat, and am coming back around to the fact that you have done all of this. This is making me more comfortable with your package.

What versions is your PPA good for? Is this still built on the karmic or is it built on the lucid package now? (I want to run 10.04 until next LTS).

It seems like virtually all of the complexity is in init.d scripts and udev rules to have things happen automatically. If you were willing to just do an assemble manually and mount, or in a very few line script at startup, this could be trivially simple IF (big IF) you are not booting off of it. Do I have the right idea?

Further, it seems like the complexity for booting off of root is really not very complex, the difficulty is knowing where the few tentacles are that need to be twiddled in a fairly trivial way. Again, is this the right idea?

If you have not changed any of the 3.1.4 C source, just tracked down the script and initfs stuff and fixed it, then I would conclude that there should be very little risk in using your package... that you have done what needs to be done and we can rely on it. Anything residual problems would be in the little scripts and references automating things, not in the fundamental md/mdadm stuff, and that could be fixed manually with a few mdadm commands if I knew what I was doing better.

Would you please comment on all of this? I think we, thanks to you, may be on the verge of getting where we want to go or are there already.

Thanks. And even more, thanks for your work!