Re: mdctl

2001-06-12 Thread Micah Anderson
swraidctl - yes, it is long, but is it much longer than apachectl? No, it is exactly the same length. It is much more descriptive than raidctl as it specifies that this is software raid, and it is more obvious than mdctl. I know I and others I work with were generally confused at first with the

Re: mdctl

2001-06-12 Thread Mike Black
OK...I'll stick my (worthless) opinion in here. I personally like root-based packages...so all I have to do is type raidtab to see all my raid commands: Already OK: raidstart raidstop raidhotadd raidhotremove raidsetfaulty raid0run Need: raidmk (instead of mkraid) raidmdctl raidmkpv (instead

Re: mdctl

2001-06-12 Thread Holger Kiehl
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Micah Anderson wrote: swraidctl - yes, it is long, but is it much longer than apachectl? No, it is exactly the same length. It is much more descriptive than raidctl as it specifies that this is software raid, and it is more obvious than mdctl. I know I and others I

Re: mdctl

2001-06-12 Thread Friedrich Lobenstock
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Mike Black wrote: Need: raidmk (instead of mkraid) raidmdctl Why raid+md? Either stick with md or with raid. If we asume that all commands should start with raid, I'd like to see a raidctl or raidctrl command, not a raidmdctl! Just my 2 euro cents :) -- MfG /

RE: failure of raid 5 when first disk is unavailable

2001-06-12 Thread Dale Stephenson
I agree the patch isn't a complete solution to all that potentially ails raidtools. All the patch does is address one specific case -- the case where /sbin/raidstart gives up when it can't get a superblock from the first entry in raidtab, even though it could have read the superblock from one of