On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:33:19AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:53:16AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Feb 20, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> >
> > >> Please apply this patch. Without it it's not possible to use yaboot on a
> > >> system with a mirrored /.
> > >correct, yaboot 1 does not support raid.
> > With this trivial change it will, and I'm using it on a RAID system.
>
> I have many years experience as the upstream maintainer of yaboot, ive
> seen many `trivial changes' break it in obscure ways. im rejecting
> the patch and giving Warren my explicit disrecommendation. 1.x is
> maintained in strict critical fix only (much like debian stable, so i
> expect you will understand and agree), adding features does not qualify.
>
> RAID is not supported and won't be until yaboot2, help with yaboot2 if
> you want that sooner.
I am really tempted to apply that patch, it seems so trivial, despite
the fact Ethan is very reluctant to do so. :(
I will first test it on a G5 with 2 harddisks in RAID-1 and see if
it works... However, other non-linear RAID personalities will not
work for sure.
Cheers,
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