On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:Miles Fidelman wrote:Now who's being pedantic?Precisely.And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't perform the raid function.And it's OK to refer to the whole thing as an mdadm RAID.
No.. if you want to be pedantic, the proper terminology is "Linux Raid" or "md RAID." mdadm is one of several admin programs available
saying "mdadm raid" is like saying "libvert hypervisor" - when what you really mean is Xen, or KVM, or ESXI - accessed through libvert
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