The Disk Data Format (DDF) trial use draft spec has now been published by SNIA. This is the common on-disk metadata format that RAID vendors have been driving towards, which should allow one to move disks from one vendor's RAID controller to another vendor's RAID controller without the backup-rebuild-restore that's currently needed. http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/ddftwg From the doc: Revision 00.45.00 Publication of this Trial-Use Draft Specification for trial use and comment has been approved by the SNIA Technical Council and the Common RAID Disk Data Format Technical Working Group. Distribution of this draft specification for comment shall not continue beyond (2) months from the date of publication. It is expected, but not certain that following this (2) month period, this draft specification, revised as necessary will be submitted to the SNIA Membership and/or Technical Council for final approval. Suggestions for revision should be directed to the Disk Data Format TWG at ddftwg@snia.org. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
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