Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261168AbVBFOsQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:48:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261178AbVBFOsQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:48:16 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:20396 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261168AbVBFOsN (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Feb 2005 09:48:13 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:48:04 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Arjan van de Ven , Martins Krikis , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29 Message-ID: <20050206144804.GA834@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Arjan van de Ven , Martins Krikis , marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk References: <87651hdoiv.fsf@yahoo.com> <420582C6.7060407@pobox.com> <1107682076.22680.58.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <58cb370e050206044513eb7f89@mail.gmail.com> <42062BFE.7070907@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42062BFE.7070907@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 17 On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 09:38:54AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Without device mapper (another new feature) to enable dmraid, these > users are just sorta S.O.L. > > I consider it not a new feature, but a missing feature, since otherwise > user data cannot be accessed in the RAID setups. So those people should switch to Linux 2.6, or simply avoid using one of the various softraid variants for the data they want to share with windows. Both Linux (md or dm) and Windows (LDM) can mirror individual partitions just fine. - 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/