From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Gatzemeier Subject: Re: "failed" vs "released" and "locked-out" state and --incremental auto-re-adding Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:39:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4BD61EA7.5060609@redhat.com> <4BD706AA.9090404@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Doug Ledford redhat.com> writes: > > On 04/27/2010 06:13 AM, Christian Gatzemeier wrote: > > > There we have a very good word to name --remove so that mdadm is easier to > > understand (IMHO). "release" > > You're probably right, but it's also too late to change it now > Remove has been in use for quite some time and there are untold numbers > of programs and scripts that use it as it is so that it would be very > difficult to change it. I agree. The only thing one could probably do is adding a --release option that just does the same as --remove, and maybe depreciating --remove when refering to that action (but of course never actually removing it). In any case thank you for your enhancements and fine explanations. Christian