On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:07:56 +0200 Marek <mlf.conv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > it seems that my email has hit top 5 ranking on google when searching > for "mdadm macosx", but it seems that due to some heavy discussion on > this mailing list it probably went unnoticed. > I would like to ask if someone would be able to elaborate whether > there is a possibility that mdadm would run on Darwin and if so, > whether a port would require a substantial rewrite. mdadm would not run on Darwin. It only works with the 'md' driver which is only in Linux. If you want both Linux and Darwin to be able to access the same software RAID array, you would need to find a format that both understand. Probably the easiest way would be do discover how MAC OSX formats RAID array and write support for that in mdadm. Far from trivial, but probably possible. A quick google suggest that RAID5 is not supported in OSX, so that would not be an option. 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
