I currently use a combination of raidtools and mdadm. I may be the exception rather than the rule because I'm currently using an old distribution (Red Hat 7.3) because of application compatibility. I use mdadm exclusively for management of arrays though (failing, hot removing, hot adding, monitoring). Fedora Core 2 is using mdadm for monitoring although I'm not sure what FC2 anaconda is using to setup RAID arrays. I believe it still uses raidtools and rc.sysinit on FC2 still uses raidtools. I'm a RH die-hard so I'm not sure what other distros use. I would venture to say that mdadm is becoming the defacto although it's not quite there yet. > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rich turner > Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:56 PM > To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: raidtools vs mdadm > > i work for a software company that develops backup and > disaster recovery software for linux. our product supports > software raid, but i must say that we currently only support > it when devices are created with raidtools. i only recently > heard about mdadm and am very impressed with its flexibility > and funtionality. > > my question is how popular is mdadm in production > environments as this compares to raidtools? > > is mdadm used to configure software raid on any distribution > installations? > > is mdadm trending to become the defacto standard for software > raid on linux? > > rich turner > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-raid" in the body of a message to > majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
