From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brown Subject: Re: "mdadm: Raid level 5 not permitted with --build" -- why is that? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:40:15 +0200 Message-ID: <4FE85C2F.5050007@hesbynett.no> References: <20120625165242.117881e1@notabene.brown> <20120625175804.21b86b35@natsu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Igor M Podlesny Cc: Roman Mamedov , NeilBrown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 25/06/2012 14:12, Igor M Podlesny wrote: > On 25 June 2012 19:58, Roman Mamedov wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:33:23 +0800 >> Igor M Podlesny wrote: >> >>>> Feel free to send a patch. >>> >>> =E2=80=94 "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 t= o answer >> your questions here either. > > Neither he was paid to add his "feel free", I guess, was he? Or w= as > that such an intricate payment? > Like many pieces of open source software, Linux md raid is written and=20 maintained by a mixture of volunteer work and corporate sponsorship. I= =20 have no idea how much Suse (or Novell) pay Neil for the work he does -=20 but he goes far beyond the call of duty in his support work on this=20 mailing list. All he asks is that you ask your questions in a clear an= d=20 polite way. Putting the question in the subject but not in the body of= =20 the email is not good enough - the post should have a good subject line= =20 /and/ a good email body. Why should Neil or anyone else take the time=20 to write a helpful reply to someone who cannot even be bothered to writ= e=20 a good email? Neil told you why md raid does not (currently) implement "--build" for=20 raid5. And he suggested that if you want that behaviour to change, you= =20 are always welcome to send a patch. If you don't want to write an=20 implementation of the missing behaviour, that's fair enough too - very=20 few people respond to "feel free to send a patch" by actually sending a= =20 patch. But if you want to get annoyed and sarcastic, please keep your=20 comments to yourself. mvh., David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html