On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen put forth on 2/3/2011 5:04 AM: >>> Unfortunately there is no organization, no standards body, that defines RAID >>> levels. > > Something smells bad here. Does one of the RAID companies own a patent or > trademark on "RAID 10"? I'll look into this. It just doesn't make any sense > for RAID 10 to be omitted from the SNIA DDF but to be referenced in the manner > it is. For the sake of practical clarity, would it be possible for the list to simply agree to use RAID1+0 = the "outside-the-mdadm-world" meaning of RAID10 and something like "md RAID10" for "our" RAID10 and to just not use plain "RAID10" at all, to avoid confusion and move on? Others more senior can of course propose other syntax; my goal is to simply avoid the confusion caused by ambiguous terminology, and the unnecessary friction that seems to come up every time these terms are discussed. -- 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
