On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:53:42PM -0700, Gaston, Jason D wrote: > My thinking is that we should allow a user to select any drives they > want when creating an array, even if they are on different controllers. > If someone wants to limit the drive choices, they could write a higher > level UI application to do this checking and limit end user choices; > which would then pass these commands to dmraid. > > Yes/No? Yes, dmraid should stay device/controller/path/... agnostic for the sake of maximum flexibility to pick drives or move them around between interconnects. Heinz > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ataraid-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list- > >bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gaston, Jason D > >Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 2:31 PM > >To: mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx; ATARAID (eg, Promise Fasttrak, Highpoint > 370) > >related discussions > >Subject: listing drives attached to a particular controller > > > >How would you go about listing the hard drives attached to a particular > >controller? For example, say you have a SCSI controller card w/ drives > >and an onboard SATA RAID controller in your system. In the future, > >dmraid will have the ability to create a RAID array from the command > >line. You may want to only add drives to the array that are attached > to > >the same controller. Otherwise, when the system boots, the RAID option > >ROM may display the RAID array as broken, as it will only see the > drives > >attached to the single controller. > > > >Should this functionally be added to the dmraid utility? Should dmraid > >block or warn about using block devices that are attached to different > >controllers? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Jason > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Ataraid-list mailing list > >Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
