Re: Software Raid, recovery after drive broke
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Raf Czlonka <rjc@linuxstuff.pl> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29:14AM BST, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Raf Czlonka <rjc@linuxstuff.pl> wrote:
>>>
>>> dmraid and mdraid are not the same thing.
>>
>> Except for the fact that you can manage a dmraid array with mdadm
>> (IIRC, you have to have "containers" on the "DEVICE" line in
>> "mdadm.conf", but there may be more to it than that).
>
> Device mapper managed ATARAID can be in the container - I never claimed
> it cannot. Please, do not confuse users.
I'm sorry that I've confused you. I was just pointing out that the
demarcation line between mdraid and dmraid isn't as straightforward as
you made it out to be because mdadm (which is an mdraid tool) can be
used to manage dmraid arrays.
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