Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Wakko Warner <wakko at animx.eu.org> [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]:
> That wasn't the point.  The point was I wasn't able to "examine"
> the "file". There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it
> to a loopback device just to examine the md superblock.

md is "multi-device". A file is not a device. Of course, mdadm
could work on files, it could also implicitly gunzip them and do
character translation and all the like. But it doesn't, and it
won't.

Now, at least this is my interpretation. I CC'd upstream and if he
disagrees, I'll take it all back. Neil, the bug report is at
http://bugs.debian.org/463769.

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