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On 07/18/2012 11:08 AM, Danny Wood wrote:<br>
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Hi Mark-Willem Jansen<br>
<br>
You may want to speak with Phillip Susi of the Ubuntu Dmraid team.<br>
He built a set of patches a long while ago that I don't think got
included in the stable dmraid.<br>
He knows the ins and outs of dmraid and has spends a lot of time
bug fixing during Ubuntu release cycles.<br>
<br>
I think the main reason that this project has died is because it
is a very niche market.<br>
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Seconded WRT the niche market.<br>
<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:50067D0C.9070807@gmail.com" type="cite"> It's
usually only used by the people who run a dual boot with Windows
as Mdadm is far superior for pure Linux installs.<br>
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The later is exactly why things move to MD and eg. we're doing a
device-mapper target wrapper<br>
to access the MD kernel runtime in order to make it accessible in
LVM.<br>
<br>
Because the MD runtime has the long established field record it has,
major FAKERAID OEMs decided<br>
to use it (namly Intel with their Intel Matrix RAID, isw in dmraid).<br>
mdadm gained external metadata format support along the lines of
dmraid to allow for that and<br>
thus supports isw for long time now.<br>
<br>
As a result of that, Red Hat decided to not further develop dmraid.
Actually we already asked publically,<br>
if dmraid is still mandatory to support the other metadata formats
than DDF, Intel Matrix RAID and MD,<br>
which are supported by mdadm now anyway.<br>
<br>
No arguments it's still needed resulted from that so far.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:50067D0C.9070807@gmail.com" type="cite"> <br>
Also GPT can already be used on top of dmraid, as far as I know
you use dmraid to initialise the block devs and kpartx to deal
with partitions.<br>
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There's no need to have code duplication for partitioinig support in
another tool.<br>
For the record: the DOS partitioning support got added way back in
time before kpartx addressed it<br>
(and never got pulled out).<br>
<br>
So use kpartx for activating partitionins on RAID sets.<br>
<br>
<br>
The most important question (as mentioned above) still persists
though: is dmraid still needed or<br>
is any further development adequate to support the Adaptec,
Highpoint, Jmicron, LSI, NVidia, Promise,<br>
Silicon Image and VIA metadata formats? Are they still being used
that much in the field or are users<br>
just happy with dmraid access to those in their mixed Linux/Windows
environments?<br>
Requirement for pure Linux environment is MD/LVM anyway.<br>
<br>
We better get field feedback which we didn't get so far to answer
that question.<br>
<br>
Heinz<br>
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Good luck and best regards,<br>
Danny<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/07/12 09:20, Mark-Willem Jansen
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<div dir="ltr"> Dear dmraid developers,<br>
<br>
Sometime in this mail-list it was said that the program dmraid
was in maintaining mode and not further developed anymore. In
the meantime the dm-developement team has put out new
dm-target, which can be used by the tool.<br>
<br>
I would like to fork the latest RC and put on github, to
continue developing the tool. I will give it a slightly new
name, so people will not confuse it with the original. My plan
is to add the support for new dm-targets and also implement
more partition tables, starting with GPT.<br>
<br>
I am not really good at generating new names, but here are
some ideas.<br>
<br>
dmraid-fbmw (forked by Mark-Willem)<br>
dmraid-fu (follow-up)<br>
dmraid-ext (extended version)<br>
<br>
So my question which name you think is a good one for the
forked?<br>
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And who can I connect if I have some questions about the tool.<br>
<br>
Greetings,<br>
<br>
Mark-Willem Jansen<br>
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