On Tuesday January 17, mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Jan 17, 2006, at 06:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > This is about code complexity/bloat. It's already complex enouth. > > I rely on the stability of the linux softraid subsystem, and want > > it to be reliable. Adding more features, especially non-trivial > > ones, does not buy you bugfree raid subsystem, just the opposite: > > it will have more chances to crash, to eat your data etc, and will > > be harder in finding/fixing bugs. > > What part of: "You will need to enable the experimental > MD_RAID5_RESHAPE config option for this to work." isn't bvious? If > you don't want this feature, either don't turn on > CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE, or don't use the raid5 mdadm reshaping > command. This isn't really a fair comment. CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE just enables the code. All the code is included whether this config option is set or not. So if code-bloat were an issue, the config option wouldn't answer it. NeilBrown - 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
