* Michael Tautschnig <m...@debian.org> [Sat Sep 18, 2010 at 02:57:26PM +0200]: > [...] (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) Thanks. Thomas? :) regards, -mika-
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