From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264039AbTGKQJN (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264097AbTGKQJN (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:13 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:28061 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264039AbTGKQJF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 12:09:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:23:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: Jeff Garzik cc: Alan Cox , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.5 'what to expect' In-Reply-To: <20030711155843.GD2210@gtf.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > - The hptraid/promise RAID drivers are currently non functional, and > > > > will probably be converted to use device-mapper. > > > > Please put software RAID here to avoid confusion. > > That introduces confusion with dev/md, which is what people have > traditionally called software RAID, IMO... s/software RAID/propertiary software RAIDs/ > I like arjan's "fakeraid" or "ataraid" names. ;-) "fakeraid" sounds good. :-) > > > > IDE. > > > > ~~~~ > > > > - Known problems with the current IDE code. > > > > o Serverworks OSB4 may panic on bad blocks or other non fatal errors > > > FIXED > > > > o PCMCIA IDE hangs on eject > > > Should be fixed in 2.5, fixed(ish) in 2.4 > > > > o ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it > > > > either use 2.4 or fix it 8) > > > > - IDE disk geometry translators like OnTrack, EZ Partition, Disk Manager > > > > are no longer supported. The only way forward is to remove the translator > > > > from the drive, and start over. > > > > > > Or to use device mapper to remap the disk. > > > > "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" boot options can be used. > > Or can I remove them? > > You can remove them... if there is a userspace component that handles > this. As much as I would love to do so, we can't just remove components > that DM _can_ handle ;-) ;-) If so, we could go ahead and remove MD > raid0 too, and such. How userspace component can help if you have ie. On-Track DM on your boot device? I think you missed my point :-). I think if somebody adds On-Track and EZ auto-detection to device mapper I can safely remove these ide boot options... -- Bartlomiej > Jeff