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Re: Should we remove raidtools?



On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > AFAIK we won't be able to kick off 2.2 for sarge. IIRC 2.2 will
> > probably be necessary for some m68k- and sparc-variants. I added
> > debian-kernel, perhaps we get some comment of the kernel-maintainers
> > whether they consider the raidtools to be necessary.
> 
> m68k needs 2.2 for Mac and probably vme (Wouter?).

My VME box doesn't boot 2.4, no. Of course, woody supports three types
of VME machines, and I only have one of them; but I don't think it's
likely they'll boot.

> Is the raidtools package for a hardware or a software raid? I don't
> know of any hardware RAID for any m68k machine, I am pretty sure there
> is none for Macs, there might be something for VME, but I again, I
> never heard of such a thing. But I am neither a VME nor a mac expert.
> I don't remember any RAID related question on the debian-68k
> mailinglist,

Ingo does (or at least did) on arrakis. That was software RAID, though,
and only RAID0 IIRC.

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