Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265615AbUAMUqK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:46:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265113AbUAMUqJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:46:09 -0500 Received: from magic-mail.adaptec.com ([216.52.22.10]:26596 "EHLO magic.adaptec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265615AbUAMUqB (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:46:01 -0500 Message-ID: <400458BB.6070205@adaptec.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:44:43 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030817 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mutex CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MD References: <20040113182154.GH7303@heliosphan.in.cryptobackpack.org> In-Reply-To: <20040113182154.GH7303@heliosphan.in.cryptobackpack.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1039 Lines: 33 mutex wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:34:10PM -0700 or thereabouts, Scott Long > wrote: > >>All, >> >>Adaptec has been looking at the MD driver for a foundation for their >>Open-Source software RAID stack. This will help us provide full >>and open support for current and future Adaptec RAID products (as >>opposed to the limited support through closed drivers that we have > > now). > >>While MD is fairly functional and clean, there are a number of >>enhancements to it that we have been working on for a while and would >>like to push out to the community for review and integration. These >>include: >> > > > > How about a endian safe superblock ? Seriously, is that a 'bug' or a > 'feature' ? Or do people just not care. The DDF metadata module will be endian-safe. Scott - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/