Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Best for what ?
for booting of raid > Who still uses RAID arrays without persistent superblocks ? historic reasons - systems aged 10y+ > Who still uses RAID assembly by the kernel instead of mdadm ? same as above > All this has beed obsoleted by the superblock format 1.x and the use of > an initrd or initramfs. > true :) man mdadm "In-kernel autodetect is not recommended for new installations." > By the way, if you compile md in the kernel, you should also compile all > necessary host controller and disk drivers in. And expect failure with > current drivers which do not guarantee that a given disk gets the same > device name at each boot. While your statement is true, I personally use UUID (/etc/fstab) and have no problem with it at all. Overall summary - you are right - it should not be needed nowdays regards