Picking up development of dmraid

[Danny Wood]

Hi Mark-Willem Jansen

You may want to speak with Phillip Susi of the Ubuntu Dmraid team.
He built a set of patches a long while ago that I don't think got 
included in the stable dmraid.
He knows the ins and outs of dmraid and has spends a lot of time bug 
fixing during Ubuntu release cycles.

I think the main reason that this project has died is because it is a 
very niche market.
It's usually only used by the people who run a dual boot with Windows as 
Mdadm is far superior for pure Linux installs.

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.

Good luck and best regards,
Danny


On 18/07/12 09:20, Mark-Willem Jansen wrote:
> Dear dmraid developers,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I am not really good at generating new names, but here are some ideas.
>
> dmraid-fbmw (forked by Mark-Willem)
> dmraid-fu (follow-up)
> dmraid-ext (extended version)
>
> So my question which name you think is a good one for the forked?
>
> And who can I connect if I have some questions about the tool.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Mark-Willem Jansen
>
>
>
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