Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, John Stoffel wrote:
>
>>>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> writes:
>>
>> Justin> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, John Stoffel wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>> So,
>>>>
>>>> Is it time to start thinking about deprecating the old 0.9, 1.0 and
>>>> 1.1 formats to just standardize on the 1.2 format?  What are the
>>>> issues surrounding this?
>>>>
>>>> It's certainly easy enough to change mdadm to default to the 1.2
>>>> format and to require a --force switch to  allow use of the older
>>>> formats.
>>>>
>>>> I keep seeing that we support these old formats, and it's never been
>>>> clear to me why we have four different ones available?  Why can't we
>>>> start defining the canonical format for Linux RAID metadata?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> John
>>>> john@stoffel.org
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>>
>> Justin> I hope 00.90.03 is not deprecated, LILO cannot boot off of
>> Justin> anything else!
>>
>> Are you sure?  I find that GRUB is much easier to use and setup than
>> LILO these days.  But hey, just dropping down to support 00.09.03 and
>> 1.2 formats would be fine too.  Let's just lessen the confusion if at
>> all possible.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> I am sure, I submitted a bug report to the LILO developer, he 
> acknowledged the bug but I don't know if it was fixed.
>
> I have not tried GRUB with a RAID1 setup yet.

Works fine.

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