From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nix Subject: Re: Can we deprecate ioctl(RAID_VERSION)? Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 10:26:50 +0100 Message-ID: <878tn8ipet.fsf@esperi.org.uk> References: <87h922trit.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <070d7f50-c8f0-d5df-89ed-adb8b7582d8a@gmail.com> <87vaqhyx4i.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <878tn9yymi.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: In-Reply-To: <878tn9yymi.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> (NeilBrown's message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:01:09 +1000") Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: jes.sorensen@gmail.com, linux-raid , Hannes Reinecke , kernel-team@fb.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 10 Apr 2017, NeilBrown verbalised: > On Fri, Apr 07 2017, jes.sorensen@gmail.com wrote: > >> Next question since I am wearing my 'what is this old stuff doing' hat. >> mdassemble? Does anything still use this? The reason is a lot of the >> newer features are explicitly included, and switching to sysfs is >> effectively going to kill it, unless it gets a major upgrade. >> > > I was never a big fan, of mdassemble, but it is smaller than mdadm and > some people apparently have (or had) space-constrained boot > environments. It also has fewer build-time requirements and can build on systems with things like old buggy versions of uclibc that can't build a working mdadm. (Of course, now musl exists, I'm not sure anyone should care about that. I stopped caring many years ago.) -- NULL && (void)