On 06/08/2015 11:40 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Brian King <brk...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > >> Rather than failing here how about the following? >> >> Change default format behaviour: >> * SIS64 adapters: Always format drives by default. We already auto format >> JBODs. >> Might as well do the same for AF DASD. Would be a small change to >> raid_create_add_dev >> * SIS32 adapters: Always format drives by default when they are going into >> an array >> of anything except RAID 0. There is no T10 on SIS32, so RAID 0 array >> creation on >> sis32 is immediate. >> * Add a new option --skip-format which allows people to do a RAID create >> without the format. >> > > Adding --skip-format seems redundant with -z, which adds zeroed devices. > Don't you agree?
No, its different. Passing "-z" tells the adapter to assume all the data on the drives is zeroed. The "--skip-format" just lets iprconfig create a RAID array and not do the format. In this case, the adapter would be told NOT to assume the drive is zeroed and the adapter would then do the parity generation for RAID 5/6/10 as well as T10 DIF initialization. Thanks, Brian -- Brian King Power Linux I/O IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Iprdd-devel mailing list Iprdd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iprdd-devel
