Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 February 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Migration is from my experience painless. Even if detecting does not > work, the mdadm.conf syntax is easier IMHO. and the comments in mdadm.conf explain the most common cases pretty clearly > However a nice little guide or doc on it, sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Josh Saddler
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > Migration is from my experience painless. Even if detecting does not > work, the mdadm.conf syntax is easier IMHO. > > However a nice little guide or doc on it, should cover and address most > all user issues stemming from migration. If such a document does not > al

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:13 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Then what is the migration path? You made it sound like copying the > > file was the solution. > > if the default mdadm scan does not automatically detect their raid devices, > then

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > Then what is the migration path? You made it sound like copying the > file was the solution. if the default mdadm scan does not automatically detect their raid devices, then the user needs to manually define their raid devices in /etc/mdadm.c

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 08:58 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If we're going to do this, should we do it before the 2007.0 snapshot, > > so people don't have raidtools disappear out from under them on their > > newly-installed system? > > it's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 12 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > If we're going to do this, should we do it before the 2007.0 snapshot, > so people don't have raidtools disappear out from under them on their > newly-installed system? it's already been done > Also, is mdadm.conf 100% compatible with /etc/rai

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 10 February 2007, Mike Doty wrote: > > Do we have documentation on howto migrate? Thats the big thing holding > > me back(afaik, I have to backup, wipe the disks and then do mdadm and > > restore) > > erm, no ... you dont need

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-11 Thread Joerg Bornkessel
> Mike Frysinger wrote: >> anyone have a compelling reason for keeping raidtools anymore ? the mdadm >> package replaces all the functionality of raidtools and is actively >> maintained upstream >> >> ive kept it around mostly so people can transition to mdadm nicely but i >> think >> it's a

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 10 February 2007, Mike Doty wrote: > Do we have documentation on howto migrate? Thats the big thing holding > me back(afaik, I have to backup, wipe the disks and then do mdadm and > restore) erm, no ... you dont need to do anything remotely close to this raidtools/mdadm are just user

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-10 Thread Mike Doty
Mike Frysinger wrote: anyone have a compelling reason for keeping raidtools anymore ? the mdadm package replaces all the functionality of raidtools and is actively maintained upstream ive kept it around mostly so people can transition to mdadm nicely but i think it's about time we let it go

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-10 Thread Thilo Bangert
> ive kept it around mostly so people can transition to mdadm nicely but > i think it's about time we let it go +1 a gentle push in the right direction can only be a good thing. > -mike pgpDOE4KQxCUl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] punt raidtools and move people to mdadm

2007-02-10 Thread Wolfram Schlich
* Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-10 03:15]: > anyone have a compelling reason for keeping raidtools anymore ? the mdadm > package replaces all the functionality of raidtools and is actively > maintained upstream > > ive kept it around mostly so people can transition to mdadm nicely