From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:35:56 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon Message-ID: <20120914133556.GI15728@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> References: <50477429.8080204@xs4all.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50477429.8080204@xs4all.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] automatically filter disks with imsm or ddf superblocks Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: LVM general discussion and development 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