[RFC] Dealing with mdadm superblock metadata default change

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> [2010.03.14.0811 +0100]:
> > Yes, I think it should be in mdadm. It should be as easy as
> > reverting
> > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=commitdiff;h=7d5c3964ccfa
> >ace123f7b75e15d38c2650e013d8
> 
> What's the status of this?

Upstream has since moved the default to 1.2. I am hesitant to revert
all of that.

I only see three ways:

1. Ask upstream to provide a compile-time switch to keep the default
   at 0.9.

2. Default to 0.9 in the mdadm.conf file.

3. Expect and require the bootloaders to catch up.

I prefer 3 over 1 over 2.

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