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[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 07:58, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Warren Togami wrote:
> 
> > I assume this means mdadm will finally become the standard in RH.  This 
> > is very welcome news to me.
> 
> I haven't had time to look into my problems very much yet, but I'm not very
> enthusiastic about mdadm on non-x86. On Linux/x86 it works okay, but on
> Linux/ultrasparc I'm having major issues with the two arrays I converted
> from raidtools for grins. It keeps destroying the disk labels on some of the
> disks....

Dunno if it helps, but this is the conversion process that Cal
documented from a while back:

https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/aurora-sparc-devel/2002-May/000784.html

mdadm should work properly on sparc, neil is well aware of the "special"
needs of that arch. bugs should definitely go in his direction if you
find any.

~spot
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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE 
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