On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 02:38:17 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 09:48 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > Maturity. > Ah... I wasn't aware that upstream still actively discourages it's > use :) I don't discourage it's use, but I don't really want to encourage it yet either. There is certainly useful functionality, but it lacks polish. > > > > btw,... when I have you in chat Neil... (and actually this might be > interesting for the Debian maintainer, too)... > > 1) Is there any interest int moving Debian's mdadm FAQ upstream? > I've started with a patchset (not yet submitted, though) that improves > some areas of the current versions... > And I sent you a mail with some infos needed to better describe the > RAID10 layouts... perhaps you've also seen already the two threads on > linux-raid... some questions I've asked there are also of (IMHO) general > interest (and not yet really answered). Yes I've seen all that but not looked very closely. I hope to respond where appropriate later today - or tomorrow. > > So given that most of these questions are not Debian specific... it may > help in moving the FAQ upstream. I don't object to carrying a FAQ in the mdadm package. It might even be quite useful. > > 2) Can it be that the ANNOUNCE-file for 3.2.6 is missing in git? (it's > in the tarball on kernel.org) 3.2.6 is in a side-branch - "mdadm-3.2.x". The announce file is in there. Maybe I should pull it into the main branch... not sure it is worth it though. > > > > Oh and one more thing (but this goes probably again more to the Debian > maintainer): > I've noted that Debian's udev rules has several (minor?) differences to > those from upstream... some of them are commented to be intentional, > some not. > The same is the case with Debian's lvm2 package,... where the changes > cause several problems and are really a pain in the ar**... so perhaps > it's worth that someone (with more insight than me ;) ) checks this :) Getting udev rules right is a bit of pain. I think of the ones I package with mdadm as more of a suggestion than a requirement. I'm open to fixes, and to distro-specific rules files, if anyone wants to send me some. NeilBrown
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