On Thursday March 7, fuji@elte.hu wrote: > * Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au) [20020307 10:20]: > > Neil, > > > it is expected that the name will change when 1.0 comes out, > > probably to mdadmin (it is easier to pronounce) > > Personally I don't think it's a good idea to change the name; why > worry about pronouncing it as 'em-dee-control'? That's a fair comment (and I hope you don't mind be copying my reply to the list) but I really don't like mdctl. Your are right that changing names can be painful, so if it has to happen it is better to do it sooner than later. So I have done it. I looked at unique base names in the debian distribution, and found: 22 end with adm 51 end with admin 72 end with ctl Which makes ctl the most popular (but I still don't like pronouncing it (*)) and 'adm' the underdog. And 'mdadm' is pleasantly palandromic. So I have taken the plunge and changed the name without waiting for 1.0. I promise it won't be changed again. mdadm 0.7 can be found at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ or http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl/ (*) em-dee-con-trol is 4 syllables and we Australian are notoriously lazy and just would never bother with such a long word. I tend to pronounce it em-dee-k-tl which is as many syllables, but they are shorter (we tend to swallow lots of vowels anyway) and the hard 'k-t' sound is unpleasant (to my anglic ear). em-dee-ad-m, or even md-adm is softer and so (to me) more pleasant. Change Log: Changes Prior to 0.7 release - Fix makefile to install binary at /sbin and not /sbin/sbin Also install man page. - Add --zero-superblock based on --destroywithextremeprejudice from Dale Stephenson <steph@snapserver.com> - change name to mdadm. It is palandromic, and much nicer to pronouce. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
