Re: Proposed enhancements to MD

Scott Long
2004-01-13T20:46:10Z

mutex wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:34:10PM -0700 or thereabouts, Scott Long
> wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>Adaptec has been looking at the MD driver for a foundation for their
>>Open-Source software RAID stack. This will help us provide full
>>and open support for current and future Adaptec RAID products (as
>>opposed to the limited support through closed drivers that we have
>
> now).
>
>>While MD is fairly functional and clean, there are a number of
>>enhancements to it that we have been working on for a while and would
>>like to push out to the community for review and integration. These
>>include:
>>
>
>
>
> How about a endian safe superblock ? Seriously, is that a 'bug' or a
> 'feature' ? Or do people just not care.

The DDF metadata module will be endian-safe.

Scott