Re: ataraid in 2.6.?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 12:32:10 EST


On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:27:08PM +0100, Nicklas Bondesson wrote:
> How do you set this (device mapping) up using the 2.6 kernel. I like the
> ease of using ataraid in 2.4.x. Why not have both alternatives as options
> (both ataraid and devicemapper)?

because ataraid is nothing more than a devicemapper....
duplicating that is rather silly...
The outcome is to be a /sbin/ataraid binary or some such that will do all
the magic to detect the raid and tell the kernel device mapper to set it all
up.

> Also have anyone of you looked at the patch
> from Walt H that he sent in yesterday? I have to use this after replacing my
> old hard drives (Maxtor 30GB) with WDC 80GB. The patch is attached.

I sent it to Marcelo for applying last week, and he applied it today

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