Bug#849806: mdadm: Administrator should be warned about the dangers of HOMEHOST

2017-01-03 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: On 31 December 2016 at 09:48, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: Snazzy would be to bake the system hostname into the initramfs (Ubuntu seems to do this as part of the baseline initramfs-tools, but Debian not so much) so that this problem largely went awa

Bug#849806: mdadm: Administrator should be warned about the dangers of HOMEHOST

2017-01-03 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 31 December 2016 at 09:48, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: > Package: mdadm > Version: 3.4-4 > Severity: normal > > I've found, the hard way, that having "HOMEHOST " in mdadm.conf is > ... not really safe, unless you list ALL arrays in mdadm.conf. That of > course means that the arrays are all alwa

Bug#849806: mdadm: Administrator should be warned about the dangers of HOMEHOST

2016-12-31 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
Package: mdadm Version: 3.4-4 Severity: normal I've found, the hard way, that having "HOMEHOST " in mdadm.conf is ... not really safe, unless you list ALL arrays in mdadm.conf. That of course means that the arrays are all always present. In my case, I have arrays that are present in external (re