[...] (Grub and new mdadm metadata format poses problems) > > AFAICT this issue won't affect squeeze itself anymore since grub in > squeeze supports the 1.x metadata format. But: if someone deploys > etch or lenny with squeeze or a newer Debian suite (where the 1.x > format is the default) it won't work in the given situation. > > I therefore suggest to document this issue. Do you (especially > Michael and Thomas) agree with me? >
Well, basically I agree that something should be done about it. The problem with documentation is that it needs to be documented at a place where a user would actually also find it. As only options I'd see debian/NEWS or the setup-storage man page. I would clearly have preferred to implement some warning in setup-storage, but that seems a pretty inappropriate place to do it: Such code must go and see which versions of mdadm and grub are installed and issue a proper warning, if necessary. A proper place could be inside the scripts, but adding it to the simple example seems pretty pointless: People doing lenny installs with squeeze are not all too likely to be first-time FAI users. From my point of view, three options require further discussion: - document it in debian/NEWS - document it in setup-storage.8 - leave the bug as is and as the documentation of choice (I'm actually slightly favouring this one) Best, Michael
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