Re: [PATCH] 2.4.x Linux Medley RAID Version 7

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.40.0403101917170.2582-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Thomas Horsten  <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>My Medley solution for 2.6 will be completely userspace (using dm), and
>there it will be possible to "force detect" an array with non-matching PCI
>ID by passing the devices as command line arguments, unfortunately it's
>not that easy in 2.4 (the whole ataraid is a hack anyway, but a useful one
>until something better is in place).

Partitioning support was added to the MD software raid layer
in 2.6 recently. Most of it is in Linus' latest tree, though a
tiny part - boot support - is still missing. Hopefully that will
be merged before 2.6.4. I'm running a system on 2 RAID1'ed SATA disks
right now.

MD already has support for more than one type of superblock. I think
if you just add medley (or intel, or ..) support to MD you're all set.

Mike.

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