On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040610 09:40]: > > Do we need to have three different RAID packages in sarge? > > > > >From the package description, it's only necessary for unpatched 2.2 > > >kernels. > > > > Given that we're trying to get rid of all 2.2 kernels, can we get rid of > > raidtools? > > AFAIK we won't be able to kick off 2.2 for sarge. IIRC 2.2 will > probably be necessary for some m68k- and sparc-variants. I added > debian-kernel, perhaps we get some comment of the kernel-maintainers > whether they consider the raidtools to be necessary.
m68k needs 2.2 for Mac and probably vme (Wouter?). Is the raidtools package for a hardware or a software raid? I don't know of any hardware RAID for any m68k machine, I am pretty sure there is none for Macs, there might be something for VME, but I again, I never heard of such a thing. But I am neither a VME nor a mac expert. I don't remember any RAID related question on the debian-68k mailinglist, I would not wonder if nobody ever used it. But probably this is for a software raid? When we upgraded our server a week ago, everything was done by the software on the controller, no raidtools needed, although we might have avoided the reboot by using linux software... If this is for a software raid, there might be people out there using it. Of course we could remove raidtools then and see if somebody starts screaming. But I think this would be in conflict with the social contract... Christian
