Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:39:24 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: RAID is a matter of availability, not data security |
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Hubert Tonneau writes: > Having a perfeclty stable kernel that requires to umount the file system (so > stop the real service) each time a hardware failure appends is just > hypocritical: users don't care at all if the problem is OS related or > hardware related; they care of availability. > RAID IS A MATTER OF PROVIDING MORE AVAILABILITY FROM STANDARD HARDWARE, > and it requires hot repair, so if you want to keep the old code in the kernel, > call it toy raid, or call the new one real raid, but put the 0.90 code in the > 2.2 standard kernel, eventualy with EXPERIMENTAL in front of it, > or never pretend that 2.2 is a stable kernel: it's just an OS designers > masturbation. > Or would it mean that enabling SUPPORT_RECONSTRUCTION in the old code is > considered safer than the new code and is maintained more actively ?
Is there some reason that you are so rude and hostile? Or are you actively seeking to be killfiled?
Regards,
Richard.... Old: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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