raidctl is already used in the BSD camp.
RAIDCTL(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual RAIDCTL(8)
NAME
raidctl - configuration utility for the RAIDframe disk driver
Neil Brown wrote:
>
> Thankyou for all the suggestions for names for mdctl.
> We have
>
> raidctl raidctrl
> swraidctl
> mdtools mdutils
> mdmanage mdmgr mdmd:-) mdcfg mdconfig mdadmin
>
> Mike Black suggested that it is valuable for tools that are related to
> start with a common prefix so that command completion can be used
> to find them.
> I think that is very true but, in this case, irrelevant.
> mdctl (to whatever it gets called) will be one tool that does
> everything.
>
> I might arrange - for back compatability - that if you call it with a
> name like
> raidhotadd
> it will default to the hot-add functionality, but I don't expect that
> to be normal usage.
>
> I have previously said that I am not very fond of raidctl as "raid" is
> a bit too generic. "swraidctl" is better but harder to pronouce.
>
> I actually rather like "md". It has a pleasing similarity to "mt".
> Also
> man 1 md -- would document the user interface
> man 5 md -- would document the device driver.
> This elegant. But maybe a bit too terse.
>
> I'm currently leaning towards mdadm or mdadmin as it is easy to
> pronounce (for my palate anyway) and has the right sort of meaning.
>
> I think I will keep that name at mdctl until I achieve all the
> functionality I want, and then when I release v1.0 I will change the
> name to what seems best at the time.
>
> Thanks again for the suggestions and interest.
>
> For the eager,
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl/mdctl-v0.3.tgz
> contains my latest source which has most of the functionality in
> place, though it doesn't all work quite right yet.
> You can create a raid5 array with:
>
> mdctl --create /dev/md0 --level raid5 --chunk 32 --raid-disks 3 \
> /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
>
> and stop it with
> mdctl --stop /dev/md0
>
> and the assemble it with
>
> mdctl --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
>
> I wouldn't actually trust a raid array that you build this way
> though. Some fields in the super block aren't right yet.
>
> I am very interested in comments on the interface and usability.
>
> NeilBrown
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