Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262825AbUCWVPW (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:15:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262834AbUCWVPW (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:15:22 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:6555 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262825AbUCWVPS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:15:18 -0500 X-Authenticated: #7370606 Message-ID: <4060A8E0.7020905@gmx.at> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:15:12 +0100 From: Wilfried Weissmann User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040306) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Arjan van de Ven , "Kevin P. Fleming" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Device mapper devel list , Thomas Horsten , medley@lists.infowares.com Subject: Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets? References: <405C8B39.8080609@gmx.net> <405CAEC7.9080104@pobox.com> <405CFC85.70004@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <20040321074711.GA13232@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <405D9CDA.6070107@gmx.at> <405F3B1C.3030500@gmx.net> <405F3EA8.6060606@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <405F3EA8.6060606@pobox.com> 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: 1094 Lines: 29 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >>> 4. nice clickety-click user interface >>> Especially useful for lazy people like me. ;) >> >> >> >> I prefer the "no user interface" approach. But then again, I'm biased. > > > Agreed -- a minimal implementation is needed first anyway. The BIOS of > these proprietary RAID thingies typically provides the user interface. On the other hand EVMS allowed me to make a minimal solution by taking care of the partitioning and the DM-API in the EVMS framework. The user interface is just an add-on that comes with the package. Right now its just a way for the user to get a "look its really there". If we do the RAID configuration and writeing the configuration blocks to the disks or not is in your hands. When we consider this to be to risky then lets just skip it. Regards, Wilfried - 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/