Sorry if i am going way off topic here, if this is
the case please insult me personally.
On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 02:31:13PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Umm, Ingo Molnar == [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think we can assume that there
> is somebody working for Red Hat who knows a bit about the current state
> of Raid. :)
I believe everybody knows that RedHat is actively funding the Linux
development by employing many skilled developers to do just that,
and so many we probably all missed Ingo was among them.
> However, speaking from the point of view of a kernel developer rather
> than a Red Hat employee, there are real obstacles to including the new
> Raid stuff in Red Hat Linux, the main one being compatibility with
> existing installations using older Raid code. I wouldn't like to be the
> one trying to make Red Hat upgrades work with the new Raid drivers but
> without breaking old-style Raid volumes...
I really hope backwards compatibility issues won't stop linux development
if that was true we would probably be still stuck with libc 4
It is not impossible to upgrade from 0.50 raid superblocks
to newest raid superblocks, a different problem might be for drives
without any superblock. As a last chance you can always trash backward
compatibility and provide people with a working system.
I don't believe spending much time to ensure backward compatibility
is worth the truble, you will never catch all cases.
anyway since everybody on the list asking about raid and RedHat 5.2
has been instructed to trash the raidtools rpm and the rc.sysinit script
there should be not many people running the old raid on rh52.
but please please please someone find some time to rewrite
the initscripts package.
Regards,
Luca
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Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System and Network Manager - CoMedia s.r.l.
