From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:21:50 -0500 Message-ID: <4E848D0E.3090308@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <20110926074002.6399de56@notabene.brown> <4E7FA3E8.5010603@yazzy.org> <20110926081853.2819622b@notabene.brown> <4E804062.3020700@yazzy.org> <20110926193130.6377f5b9@notabene.brown> <4E82203A.60507@yazzy.org> <20110928091335.1df35f8e@notabene.brown> <4E828B92.40502@hardwarefreak.com> <4E82C862.8000705@yazzy.org> <4E834758.2090508@hardwarefreak.com> <20110929094910.2c44ff8a@notabene.brown> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com 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: David Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/29/2011 4:03 AM, David Brown wrote: > One challenge for getting apprentices in this particular area is the > hardware costs. For someone to be able to really help you out in > development and serious testing of md, they are going to need access to > a machine with plenty of disks, preferably with hotplug bays and with a > mix of hdds and ssds. That's going to out of reach for many potential > assistants - it is hard enough finding someone with the required talent, > interest and time to spend on md/mdadm. Finding people with money - > especially people using md raid professionally - should be a lot easier. > So if there is anyone out there who is willing and able to contribute > seriously to md/mdadm, but is hindered by lack of hardware, then I for > one would be willing to contribute to a fund to help out. Almost a dozen different people from Intel have contributed code recently. I would think such folks wouldn't have any problem getting access to all the hardware they could need given Intel's financial resources. Seems like a good recruiting pool. -- Stan