From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Status of Linux MD RAID 10? (Or: Why is it still marked experimental?) Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 13:18:04 +1000 Message-ID: <20100503131804.6effdcdc@notabene.brown> References: <20100422111750.GB32053@hitomi.veith-m.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100422111750.GB32053@hitomi.veith-m.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Eric MSP Veith Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:17:51 +0000 Eric MSP Veith wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello list, > > I'm using Linux' MD feature with two RAID 1 arrays and am pretty happy with it. > Since I'm planning to change my disk layout, I'd like to switch to RAID level > 10. But when configuring current 2.6.33 stable kernel, I found RAID 10 marked > experimental. > > Why is this that case? I just never got around to removing it. I will submit a patch for 2.6.35 to remove the EXPERIMENTAL designation (it is too late to bother for 2.6.34). Thanks, NeilBrown > > I normally do not tend to ignore the "EXPERIMENTAL" warning; in fact, my > current "home server" kernel does not include any single item marked as > experimental. > > I've googled around before bugging the ML and found several others asking > questions along the line "can I use MD RAID 10 right now?", with answers like > "it works for me so far." I, on the contrary, would like to know what issues > prevent RAID 10 from getting the "experimental" KConfig tag removed. > > TIA! > > Eric > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvQMF4ACgkQhS0drJ3goJIOwQCffOtkGCs57p5dyYu6pcQdgpyp > KcsAn0MRkm9ShMFNwGKgAY4fe2hFuB0c > =08wl > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html