also sprach Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> [2009.03.05.0349 +0100]: > I'm in favour of deprecating it. Whenever I hear of people using it I > suggest dm-multipath, but there could people I don't here about. > I think the upcoming mdadm-3.0 will need a compile-time option to > enable multipath, so people will only get it if they really really > want it. How do you propose a distro to deal with this? Keep it enabled for a certain time (with a deprecation warning?) and then just to close the doors on users who still need it? How long will you support it after deprecation? I understand that dm-multipath is more favourable, but unless there's a riskless way to convert mdadm multipath into dm-multipath on old systems, I don't think we have the option of deprecating it, unless deprecation lasts for several years. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@xxx> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the perfect gun is an idealist without any ideal." -- mc 900 ft jesus
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