On 9/29/2011 4:03 AM, David Brown wrote:
One challenge for getting apprentices in this particular area is the hardware costs. For someone to be able to really help you out in development and serious testing of md, they are going to need access to a machine with plenty of disks, preferably with hotplug bays and with a mix of hdds and ssds. That's going to out of reach for many potential assistants - it is hard enough finding someone with the required talent, interest and time to spend on md/mdadm. Finding people with money - especially people using md raid professionally - should be a lot easier. So if there is anyone out there who is willing and able to contribute seriously to md/mdadm, but is hindered by lack of hardware, then I for one would be willing to contribute to a fund to help out.
Almost a dozen different people from Intel have contributed code recently. I would think such folks wouldn't have any problem getting access to all the hardware they could need given Intel's financial resources. Seems like a good recruiting pool.
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