Bug#61065: Adam Di Carlo: Re: Bug#61065: Need /dev/md0 for boot/install RAID support in root.bin
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 04:53:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > > I will have to check into this. The start of the problem is that there is
> > > no proper software RAID support in the kernel source tree. The software
> > > RAID support which is present is years old and is referenced as v0.4x
> > > RAID. The newer code, which completely replaces the earlier code and is
> > > currently being distributed as kernel source patches by Ingo Molnar (at
> > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo) which is referenced as v0.90 RAID.
> >
> > Ok -- you're asking for kernel patching. This is not for us to
> > decide. This is for the kernel-source maintainer (Herbert Xu) to
> > decide. I would assume it's too late in the freeze process to change
> > this in potato. I've CC'd him.
>
> I won't do this for 2.2.14 or 2.2.15 since those who need this can easily
> patch their own kernels to do it. If someone wishes to make a kernel-patch
> package for it, that would be OK though.
That's a good idea! What is involved in making a kernel patch? Should it
have any dependencies other than upon kernel-source? In this case, it
would make sense to have a dependency upon raidtools2. A kernel patch
package would also be the logical place to collect some documentation.
-- Mike
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