From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:33:32 +1000 Message-ID: <18048.38684.330100.529424@notabene.brown> References: <46803772.7020408@rillion.net> <46806CCB.6020708@rillion.net> <18048.30679.872740.744997@notabene.brown> <468085E9.70804@rillion.net> <18048.35410.896207.686311@notabene.brown> <46809495.6000109@rillion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Graeme Sheppard Return-path: Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57735 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751112AbXFZEdl (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:33:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: message from Graeme Sheppard on Tuesday June 26 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday June 26, nodes@rillion.net wrote: > > Thanks for the brief howto there. I'll install the mdadm suite and > experiment. It seems like a userspace driver? mdadm is a userspace tool for managing the 'md' driver which is in the linux kernel. > > I don't know what you mean by '2'. > > 2 meant in the way that a driver for a PC raid card is not much use on > a Sparc. Ahh... That is one of the great things about Linux. You code in C, and the driver works on every architecture (providing you are reasonably careful, and the arch actually supports the hardware). :-) NeilBrown