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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raidtools vs mdadm
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 09:40:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040901074001.GE3830@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093978543.3399.20.camel@rich>

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:55:43AM -0700, rich turner wrote:
>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?
it is surely gaining popularity, but i don't have any number

>is mdadm used to configure software raid on any distribution
>installations?
mandrakelinux is switching to mdadm for next release.

>is mdadm trending to become the defacto standard for software raid on
>linux?
i would hope so, but then i am biased.

L.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31 18:55 raidtools vs mdadm rich turner
2004-08-31 19:27 ` Guy
2004-09-01  6:45   ` Gordon Henderson
2004-09-01  0:50 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-01  7:40 ` Luca Berra [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-31 19:38 Rechenberg, Andrew
2004-08-31 22:03 ` rich turner
2004-09-01  0:54   ` Neil Brown
2004-09-09  0:11     ` rich turner
2004-09-09  0:42       ` Neil Brown
2004-09-09  2:56         ` Bob Hillegas

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