Re: md driver?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:29:42PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> md: could not lock [dev 08:01], zero-size? Marking faulty.
> 
> What is this?  If I determine I don't need it how do I
> remove it in the kernel?

Multiple-disk device driver.  I know it handles the kernel's software
RAID implementation, and I suspect that LVM is based off of it also.

It's one of those things where if you don't know what it is, you
almost certainly don't need it...

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