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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Ddf based RAID management software
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:00:53 -0500
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NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> writes:
> On Sun, Nov 13 2016, Arka Sharma wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is there any tool apart from mdadm available which can create software
>> RAID based on Ddf metadata. We want to dump the metadata content and
>> tally with metadata written by mdadm and our application.
>
> Not that I'm aware of.
> dmraid can read some ddf metadata, but I don't think it will create new
> metadata.

I thought some BIOS code would be able to do it, similar to how Intel's
IMSM BIOS does it?

Jes