You're right, Dan. It just happens that "fakeraid" is the only term other than "software raid" that came to me, and I wanted to differentiate bios-raid from mdraid. I'll try to stick with "bios-raid" from now on. "External metadata raid", despite seeeming most correct, is just too many characters. Dave On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 09:53 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > David Lehman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to get a better idea of the perceived usefulness of > > optionally-partitioned devices. There are two basic examples: > > > > - whole-disk filesystem, lvm pv, md component, &c (no partition table) > > - partitioned md devices > > > > We seem to have set out on this road to some extent by accepting patches > > to use the md subsystem for some fakeraid formats, but I'm wondering how > > far we want to go. Do we want to support creation of filesystems and > > other formatting on disks with no disklabel? Do we want to support the > > creation of disklabels on md devices other than fakeraid arrays? > > Just a note, can we stop calling them fakeraid arrays? There is nothing > fake about Linux software RAID. 'bios-raid', 'platform-raid', 'external > metadata raid', or just 'software raid' are more appropriate. > > Thanks, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
