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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:32:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479E2DDA.5040102@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479E232E.1030801@rabbit.us>

Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> David Greaves wrote:
>> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> This makes 1.0 the default sb type for new arrays.
>>>
>>
>> IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options
>> (google "Time
>> to  deprecate old RAID formats?") and the superblocks to emphasise the
>> location
>> and data structure. Would it be good to introduce the new names at the
>> same time
>> as changing the default format/on-disk-location?
>>
>> David
> 
> Also wasn't the concession to make 1.1 default instead of 1.0 ?
> 
IIRC Doug Leford did some digging wrt lilo + grub and found that 1.1 and 1.2
wouldn't work with them. I'd have to review the thread though...

David

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-28 17:22 [PATCH] Use new sb type Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-28 18:19 ` David Greaves
2008-01-28 18:47   ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-28 19:32     ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-01-29  4:09       ` Tim Southerwood
2008-01-29  9:37         ` Peter Rabbitson
2008-01-29 11:25           ` Yes, but please provide the clue (was Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type) Moshe Yudkowsky
2008-01-28 19:10   ` [PATCH] Use new sb type Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-29 23:08   ` Bill Davidsen
2008-01-30 12:53     ` David Greaves
2008-02-08  0:23     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-10 10:34       ` David Greaves
2008-02-10 12:12         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-10 12:27           ` David Greaves
2008-02-10 12:30             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-11  3:32               ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-11  8:21               ` David Greaves
2008-02-11 18:28                 ` Bill Davidsen

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