From: Christian Gatzemeier <c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "failed" vs "released" and "locked-out" state and --incremental auto-re-adding
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:39:24 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100427T210643-938@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4BD706AA.9090404@redhat.com
Doug Ledford <dledford <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
> On 04/27/2010 06:13 AM, Christian Gatzemeier wrote:
>
> > There we have a very good word to name --remove so that mdadm is easier to
> > understand (IMHO). "release"
>
> You're probably right, but it's also too late to change it now
> Remove has been in use for quite some time and there are untold numbers
> of programs and scripts that use it as it is so that it would be very
> difficult to change it.
I agree. The only thing one could probably do is adding a --release option that
just does the same as --remove, and maybe depreciating --remove when refering to
that action (but of course never actually removing it).
In any case thank you for your enhancements and fine explanations.
Christian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-23 12:20 "failed" vs "removed" or "locked-out" state and --incremental auto-re-adding Christian Gatzemeier
2010-04-23 14:46 ` Phillip Susi
2010-04-26 22:28 ` "failed" vs "removed" or "locked-out" " Christian Gatzemeier
2010-04-26 23:15 ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-27 10:13 ` "failed" vs "released" and "locked-out" " Christian Gatzemeier
2010-04-27 15:45 ` Doug Ledford
2010-04-27 19:39 ` Christian Gatzemeier [this message]
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