As I understand it, raidtools is not supported anymore. The gods of RAID support mdadm. I get this info from this list. RedHat 9 still uses raidtools. I don't know about the newer versions of redhat. RedHat, you there? Please use mdadm! I don't know what other distributions use. I plan to give Debian a try the next time I setup a system. People have posted patches to remove raidstart from the startup scripts, and replace them with mdadm. I use mdadm, it is much better at starting arrays with issues, and correcting them. However I still use the stock scripts during re-boot which still use raidstart. I think raidtools has 1 item that mdadm does not. That is raidreconf. Mdadm does not support that function. Correct me if I am wrong! Guy -----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
