Bug#440712: mdadm: strange mdadm-raid output for non-standard array-names

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe at TU-Ilmenau.DE> [2007.09.04.1757 +0200]:
> Well, it would probably help me to know what exactly you mean with
> unnecessary complexity, counter-intuitivity and illogic. If you did
> already state these things somewhere, just give me a pointer.

You have to distinguish between v0 and v1 naming, and v0 is
horrible. Check out my attempt to document it at:

  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/FAQ?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
  (item 3)

v1 naming, which is what you want, makes so much more sense, and
yes, it's the new way of doing it, but as long as upstream does not
make v1 superblocks the default version (and thus not fully trusts
them), I don't want to make them the default in Debian and thus not
in the installer and thus Debian doesn't really have them and thus
I won't implement support for them.

Now, I realise I am not answering the question and in fact, I take
it all back: v0 naming is horrible, v1 naming is the solution.
I will talk to Neil about this stuff in the next few weeks and at
LCA, but that does not mean we have to wait to implement support for
it in the init script and the initramfs hooks.

However, there is also #398310 and my desire to clean up much of the
code I wrote for Debian's mdadm. In addition, we should properly
integrate it with udev and actually get rid of device names as
a whole and just start using UUIDs and/or v1 superblock names to
assemble them.

My problem is that I can't find time to do that. If you wanted to
have a look, then I'd be glad to give you a rundown of how I think
things could work and let you hack at the code and support you until
we get to a working state.

Thoughts?

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