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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@xs4all.net>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] automatically filter disks with imsm or ddf	superblocks
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:35:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120914133556.GI15728@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50477429.8080204@xs4all.net>

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:47:53PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Note that dev-ddf.c and dev-imsm.c have "Copyright: Miquel van  
> Smoorenburg" headers.. it looks like lvm only has redhat copyrighted  
> stuff in it. Feel free to remove my copyright there, and/or add redhat  
> copyright. The contents of those files aren't really original anyway,  
> mostly copied from dev-md.c.

Copyright is additive in these circumstances: keep our copyright line and 
append yours.

> - mdadm calls this format "imsm", should we keep that name or use
>   "matrix", or perhaps "(Intel) RST" since Intel renamed "matrix
>   raid" to "Rapid Storage Technology" last year.

Internally, I'm not bothered. Docs should probably mention alternative
names.

> - right now the md_component_detection configuration option also
>   turns on/off ddf and imsm detection. I think that is fine as in
>   linux it is the "md" driver that supports those formats. 

I agree.  It's unlikely people will need one without the other.

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-05 15:47 [linux-lvm] automatically filter disks with imsm or ddf superblocks Miquel van Smoorenburg
2012-09-14 13:35 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2012-09-14 20:29   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2012-09-17 10:07     ` [linux-lvm] [PATCH] automatically filter disks with imsm or ddf superblocks, v2 Miquel van Smoorenburg
2012-09-22 16:34       ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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