On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 22:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > We're working on this. It won't always be practical, however; in the > > current case, for example, you need specific hardware to test mdadm. > > Uh, this is md, not dm, you don't need very special HARDWARE (basically only > 2 HDDs, which do not even have to be identical, and you might even get away > with only 1 for testing, with absymal performance of course), you do need a > special setup though, which means repartitioning, and so isn't practical to > test on a production machine which isn't already set up that way.
mdadm is also used to support Intel BIOS RAID, so you need an appropriate motherboard to test that path. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
