On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:23:08AM -0700, Kulkarni, Sunil A wrote: > Is .write being used by any format handlers currently ? If .write is > used to write the complete metadata, then it can be used to create the > metadata also, right ? Last time I looked, the asr handler uses .write when reconfiguring RAID1 sets. And no, create should be in its own function because writing and creating are orthogonal operations--create happens once; write happens any time you reconfigure the array. > Also, instead of 'dmraid -C isw_xxxxxx_raidSet1 .....' > How about 'dmraid -C VolumeName ...' > And then isw can prepend isw_xxxxxx to the volume name to make > isw_xxxxx_VolumeName > This way, different format handlers can make up their own string and one > need not give isw specific string from the command line (since isw_xxxxx > is generated internally by isw anyway). How do you specify which handler format you want? Separate switch, or embedded in the volume name? Also, some raids let you specify a volumename; others only provide for a bunch of hex numbers. --D
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