RE: ataraid in 2.6.?

From: Nicklas Bondesson
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 16:44:55 EST


Yes, I agree. Duplicating it is rather silly :)

Where did he apply it?

/Nicke

-----Original Message-----
From: Arjan van de Ven [mailto:arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: den 29 december 2003 18:30
To: Nicklas Bondesson
Cc: 'Christophe Saout'; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: ataraid in 2.6.?

On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:27:08PM +0100, Nicklas Bondesson wrote:
> How do you set this (device mapping) up using the 2.6 kernel. I like
> the ease of using ataraid in 2.4.x. Why not have both alternatives as
> options (both ataraid and devicemapper)?

because ataraid is nothing more than a devicemapper....
duplicating that is rather silly...
The outcome is to be a /sbin/ataraid binary or some such that will do all
the magic to detect the raid and tell the kernel device mapper to set it all
up.

> Also have anyone of you looked at the patch from Walt H that he sent
> in yesterday? I have to use this after replacing my old hard drives
> (Maxtor 30GB) with WDC 80GB. The patch is attached.

I sent it to Marcelo for applying last week, and he applied it today

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