Bug#376009: mdadm: AUTOSTART should control the stopping of arrays as well and default to off

[Christian Pernegger]

> Would it help if I asked the question at higher priority?

Sure. Apparently the default debconf priority for new non-expert
installs is high :(

> Also, I am not sure about setting the default to off as it may leave
> users with unusable systems. But then, I am ambivalent about it,
> really.

Nah, defaulting to on is fine if the question is at high. That, and
the dialog that warns about auto-activating when disks with 'foreign'
RAID superblocks are in the system.

> initrd integration has been there for years. I am working on
> initramfs.
>
> If you'd help me out we can make sure that there's not inteference.

With pleasure, considering that I have to dive into that anyway. (My
array isn't shutting down cleanly, see linux-raid list.)

Regards,

C.