From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264500AbUHSJiX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:38:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264697AbUHSJiW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:38:22 -0400 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.88]:6585 "EHLO unthought.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264503AbUHSJgq (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Aug 2004 05:36:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:36:45 +0200 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: Heinz Mauelshagen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 *** Message-ID: <20040819093645.GZ27443@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , Heinz Mauelshagen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040818190610.GA6279@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040818190610.GA6279@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:06:10PM +0200, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 *** > > dmraid 1.0.0-rc3 is available at > http://people.redhat.com:/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source, source rpm and i386 rpm. > > dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays > properties of software RAID sets (ie. ATARAID) and contained DOS > partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel. > > The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6: > > Highpoint HPT37X > Highpoint HPT45X > Intel Software RAID > Promise FastTrack > Silicon Image Medley Just a question; if it has already been answered or is somehow irrelevant I apologize for my ignorance in advance... :) Why not add Linux Software RAID (md) support as well? That way we'd finally be able to get rid of the MD-outside-DM code. And maybe kill the kernel auto-detection of MD devices while we're at it (ok, that's probably 2.7 material as it will break a *lot* of systems) -- / jakob