From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:19:00 -0400 Message-ID: <471E8164.8090608@tmr.com> References: <18200.49267.763509.924873@stoffel.org> <18200.53593.687483.120827@stoffel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Justin Piszcz Cc: John Stoffel , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Piszcz 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 >>>> - >>>> 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 >>>> >> >> 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. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979