also sprach Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: > That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to "examine" > the "file". There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it > to a loopback device just to examine the md superblock.
md is "multi-device". A file is not a device. Of course, mdadm could work on files, it could also implicitly gunzip them and do character translation and all the like. But it doesn't, and it won't. Now, at least this is my interpretation. I CC'd upstream and if he disagrees, I'll take it all back. Neil, the bug report is at http://bugs.debian.org/463769. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other." -- honoré de balzac
digital_signature_gpg.asc
Description: Digital signature (see http://martin-krafft.net/gpg/)
