attention everyone,
the assumption that people who use raid or nfs always use a patched kernel
is not true.
in many cases it is not trivial to find the newest patches and tools to go
with them (documentation limitations) and in other cases the stock stuff
seems to work so people don't realize there is a reason to upgrade.
David Lang
On 1
Sep 2000 miquels@cistron.nl wrote:
> Date: 1 Sep 2000 12:21:58 GMT
> From: miquels@cistron.nl
> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.18pre1
>
> In article <20000901135015.A9769@gruyere.muc.suse.de>,
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >The big problem with the raid patches is that there is no way back for your
> >raid array, unless somebody adds a noconv modus to raidutils and support into
> >the kernel to keep the old super block version. It also requires tools
> >updates.
>
> Well at least the RAID0 format from 2.2.x is useable with RAID0.90.
> I'm not sure about raid1/5, but people using those probably have
> migrated to RAID0.90 anyway (?)
>
> The biggest problem I think is that the new RAID tools don't work with
> older kernels. If they did you could keep your 2.2.x RAID0 array and
> switch between 2.2.x raid and 0.90 raid without switching around
> tools and rewriting /etc/mdtab to /etc/raidtab and back all the time.
>
> It would be even better if the raid 0.90 code had a compatibility
> mode for the older raidtools..
>
> Or has that been fixed already ?
>
> Mike.
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