On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options >> (google "Time to deprecate old RAID formats?") and the superblocks >> to emphasise the location and data structure. Would it be good to >> introduce the new names at the same time as changing the default >> format/on-disk-location? > > Yes, I suggested some layout names, as did a few other people, and > a few changes to separate metadata type and position were > discussed. BUT, changing the default layout, no matter how "better" > it seems, is trumped by "breaks existing setups and user practice." Layout names are a different matter from what the default sb type should be. - 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