On Tuesday February 10, mikepery@fscked.org wrote: > Thus spake Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au): > > > On Tuesday February 10, mikepery@fscked.org wrote: > > > > > > I concur. The manpages really should clear up that raidhotadd (and mdadm > > > -a) only add spares. And they should further clarify that spares are > > > essentially useless and lie dormant.. The names of these > > > commands/options are very deceptive to the new user... > > > > Patches are more that welcome. > > Is there a preferred version/cvs repository that I should diff against? The > raidtools are kinda helter-skelter in their net presence, it seems.. Sorry, I should have been more specific. Patches *against mdadm* are welcome. I have no interest in "raid-tools" - it seems to be unmaintained. Patches against the lastest source tar-ball are fine. 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
