Are there plans to incorporate this into md, allowing for compatibility between software and hardware arrays? On a slightly off-topic note, is that at all possible now with any md/hardware controller combinations? > 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 > - 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
