[Bug 1621865] Re: Please don't run by default on 16.04LTS !

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

The reasoning there is that it is common for Server and Cloud to have
mdadm setup, and it is useful to have that in initramfs, such that one
can recover these drives.

This is not quite a bug but an opinion w.r.t. default set of packages
shipped in Ubuntu Server.

I will assign this to the ubuntu server team to respond too.

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Server Team (ubuntu-server)

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Title:
  Please don't run by default on 16.04LTS !

Status in mdadm package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Could someone please explain to me the dumb decision to activate mdadm
  by default in a default install of 16.04LTS ?

  What's wrong with the obvious process that *IF* I want RAID, I can
  either activate the service (and configure it accordingly) or install
  the package.

  Why on earth run it by default and waste un-necessary resources on the
  system and fill up my dmesg and logs with un-necessary messages about
  MDADM finding nothing ?

  Sorry for the rant, but 16.04LTS has been a particularly frustrating
  and buggy release. Not one of Ubuntu's finest hours !

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