Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Neil Brown]

On Tuesday January 17, mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 06:26, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > This is about code complexity/bloat.  It's already complex enouth.  
> > I rely on the stability of the linux softraid subsystem, and want  
> > it to be reliable. Adding more features, especially non-trivial  
> > ones, does not buy you bugfree raid subsystem, just the opposite:  
> > it will have more chances to crash, to eat your data etc, and will  
> > be harder in finding/fixing bugs.
> 
> What part of: "You will need to enable the experimental  
> MD_RAID5_RESHAPE config option for this to work." isn't bvious?  If  
> you don't want this feature, either don't turn on  
> CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE, or don't use the raid5 mdadm reshaping  
> command.

This isn't really a fair comment.  CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE just
enables the code.  All the code is included whether this config option
is set or not.  So if code-bloat were an issue, the config option
wouldn't answer it.

NeilBrown
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