Comment 50 for bug 557429

Phillip, first please explain where/why you think "flip-floping would occur
continiously", in such a way that makes it not enough to never assemble
a corrupt array and notify someone to take care to reconcile the
conflicting changes if desired.
Because this seems to be the reason you want to break mdadm
--incremental support for hot-plugging segmented array parts.
(by committing an arbitrary but not highly fluctuating/flip-flopping
state to metadata, i.e. promoting auto-remove instead of leaving that
always a manual action.)