[RFC] Dealing with mdadm superblock metadata default change

[Frans Pop]

On Friday 28 May 2010, martin f krafft wrote:
> 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=7d5c3964
> > >ccfa 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.

But is that realistic for Squeeze?

BTW, someone else will have to follow up on this from the D-I side. I'm 
dropping the issue from my ToDo list.

Cheers,
FJP