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Re: Should we remove raidtools?



On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Andrew Pollock (apollock@debian.org) [040610 09:40]:
> > Do we need to have three different RAID packages in sarge?
> > 
> > >From the package description, it's only necessary for unpatched 2.2 kernels.
> > 
> > Given that we're trying to get rid of all 2.2 kernels, can we get rid of
> > raidtools?
> 
> 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.
> 

Okay, so there's a small userbase that require 2.2 kernels still. I wonder
how many (if any) of them require software RAID?

regards

Andrew



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