Neil Brown wrote: > I would like it to take an argument in contexts where --bitmap was > meaningful (Create, Assemble, Grow) and not where --brief is > meaningful (Examine, Detail). but I don't know if getopt_long will > allow the 'short_opt' string to be changed half way through > processing... Here's an honest opinion from a regular user. mdadm's command line arguments seem arcane and cryptic and unintuitive. It's difficult to grasp what combinations will actually do something worthwhile and what combinations will just yield a 'you cannot do that' output. I find myself spending 20 minutes with mdadm --help and experimenting with different commands (which shouldn't be the case when doing RAID stuff) just to do simple things like create an array or make MD assemble the devices that compose an array. I know. Not very constructive, but a POV anyway. Maybe I just do not use MD enough, and so I shouldn't complain, because the interface is really not designed for the absolute newbie. If so, then I apologize. I don't have any constructive suggestions, except to say that the way the classic Cisco interface does things works very nicely. A lot of other manufacturers has also started doing things the Cisco way. If you don't have a Cisco router available, you can fx. use a Windows XP box. Type 'netsh' in a command prompt, then 'help'. Or alternatively 'netsh help'. You get the idea :-). - 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
