On 10 Apr 2017, NeilBrown verbalised: > On Fri, Apr 07 2017, jes.sorensen@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Next question since I am wearing my 'what is this old stuff doing' hat. >> mdassemble? Does anything still use this? The reason is a lot of the >> newer features are explicitly included, and switching to sysfs is >> effectively going to kill it, unless it gets a major upgrade. >> > > I was never a big fan, of mdassemble, but it is smaller than mdadm and > some people apparently have (or had) space-constrained boot > environments. It also has fewer build-time requirements and can build on systems with things like old buggy versions of uclibc that can't build a working mdadm. (Of course, now musl exists, I'm not sure anyone should care about that. I stopped caring many years ago.) -- NULL && (void) -- 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
