Re: RAID superblock confusion

From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 21:23:38 EST


On Wednesday April 17, mfedyk@matchmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:54:13AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > On Saturday April 13, rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca wrote:
> > > If there was only a "do as I say, regardless" mode, I would be happy.
> > > This programmer-knows-best attitude smacks of M$.
> >
> > mdadm will do as you say, reguardless - if you ask it to. Have you
> > tried mdadm?
> > http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
>
> Niel, do you plan to merge mdadm into the raidtools package? It sounds like
> it belongs there.

No.
If distributions want to distribute mdadm together with the stuff from
raidtools, then that is up to them.
But from a development perspective, I don't see any value in making a
single source distribution.

NeilBrown
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