From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: [OT] Re: questions about softraid limitations Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:52:32 +1000 Message-ID: <18480.49473.241321.362325@notabene.brown> References: <002801c8b55a$60e4a360$0404a8c0@dcccs> <482AC2BB.5010602@dgreaves.com> <01be01c8b61a$6e616260$9300a8c0@dcccs> <18476.58840.602946.872085@notabene.brown> <482D242B.7060908@rabbit.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from Peter Rabbitson on Friday May 16 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Rabbitson Cc: Janos Haar , David Greaves , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Friday May 16, rabbit+list@rabbit.us wrote: > > Wow, this is big :) Is it correct to state that today most of mdadm's tasks > can be carried out by toying with sysfs? Fascinating! Sort-of. Many of mdadm's tasks are "make it easy to..." or "'automatically figure out ...". These things cannot be done by toying in sysfs. But yes: most (if not all) direct manipulations of md array can be done through text files in sysfs. NeilBrown