Picking up development of dmraid

[Mark-Willem Jansen]

Hi Danny,

Thanks for the info.

I will try to contact Phillip Susi directly. I already had some contact with him in the past. Lets see if we can make this tool fully functional.

For my own system I implemented dm-raid.ko support into dmraid and the kpartx work-around. But I got some minor errors with gdisk when adding partitions to the raid. And I also find it dangerous that such an essential tool is dependent on another tool.

Kind regards,

Mark-Willem



Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:08:28 +0100
From: danwood76 at gmail.com
To: ataraid-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Picking up development of dmraid


  
    
  
  
    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
 		 	   		  
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