Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:55:17 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: NFS under 2.2.12 |
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From: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Date: 1 Sep 1999 22:40:59 +0200
Well Alan, with RAID the upgrade was pretty dangerous - you had to mess around with converting important, critical config files by hand (mdtab -> raidtab) and people feared they could lose their data. At least I did. And if you created a new style RAID partition there was no way to go back to a kernel < 2.2.12.
Another factor which people have to keep in mind is how many people are using RAID heavily in 2.2.x and not using the new RAID stuff.
And one cannot judge this simply by the loudness or number of the people who complain (unhappy people are loud, happy people are mostly silent). My personal judgement says there are more people slaving away at adding the RAID patches to the standard kernel than those who need to go through the RAID upgrade process.
I'm not even going to go into the issue of the fact that you can use the new raid code and tools and preserve your RAID format for older stuff. I would only let someone as knowledgable as Ingo make claims in this area.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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