From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rich turner Subject: raidtools vs mdadm Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:55:43 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1093978543.3399.20.camel@rich> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids i work for a software company that develops backup and disaster recovery software for linux. our product supports software raid, but i must say that we currently only support it when devices are created with raidtools. i only recently heard about mdadm and am very impressed with its flexibility and funtionality. my question is how popular is mdadm in production environments as this compares to raidtools? is mdadm used to configure software raid on any distribution installations? is mdadm trending to become the defacto standard for software raid on linux? rich turner