On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:18:46PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > 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. Exactly. > > > 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. -f option. Heinz > > --D > _______________________________________________ > Ataraid-list mailing list > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
