Re: "mdadm: Raid level 5 not permitted with --build" -- why is that?

[David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>]

On 25/06/2012 14:12, Igor M Podlesny wrote:
> On 25 June 2012 19:58, Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru> wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:33:23 +0800
>> Igor M Podlesny <for.poige+lsr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Feel free to send a patch.
>>>
>>>     — "Feel free" to spend time digging into an area which isn't what
>>> you get paid for? At least what exactly should be patched this time,
>>> will you kindly tell us?
>>
>> Oh come on, that's just rude. I don't think Neil is paid by anyone to answer
>> your questions here either.
>
>     Neither he was paid to add his "feel free", I guess, was he? Or was
> that such an intricate payment?
>

Like many pieces of open source software, Linux md raid is written and 
maintained by a mixture of volunteer work and corporate sponsorship.  I 
have no idea how much Suse (or Novell) pay Neil for the work he does - 
but he goes far beyond the call of duty in his support work on this 
mailing list.  All he asks is that you ask your questions in a clear and 
polite way.  Putting the question in the subject but not in the body of 
the email is not good enough - the post should have a good subject line 
/and/ a good email body.  Why should Neil or anyone else take the time 
to write a helpful reply to someone who cannot even be bothered to write 
a good email?

Neil told you why md raid does not (currently) implement "--build" for 
raid5.  And he suggested that if you want that behaviour to change, you 
are always welcome to send a patch.  If you don't want to write an 
implementation of the missing behaviour, that's fair enough too - very 
few people respond to "feel free to send a patch" by actually sending a 
patch.  But if you want to get annoyed and sarcastic, please keep your 
comments to yourself.

mvh.,

David



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