Re: Picking up development of dmraid

Danny Wood <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:08:28 +0100
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Hi Mark-Willem Jansen

You may want to speak with Phillip Susi of the Ubuntu Dmraid team.
He built a set of patches a long while ago that I don't think got 
included in the stable dmraid.
He knows the ins and outs of dmraid and has spends a lot of time bug 
fixing during Ubuntu release cycles.

I think the main reason that this project has died is because it is a 
very niche market.
It's usually only used by the people who run a dual boot with Windows as 
Mdadm is far superior for pure Linux installs.

Also GPT can already be used on top of dmraid, as far as I know you use 
dmraid to initialise the block devs and kpartx to deal with partitions.

Good luck and best regards,
Danny


On 18/07/12 09:20, Mark-Willem Jansen wrote:
> Dear dmraid developers,
>
> Sometime in this mail-list it was said that the program dmraid was in 
> maintaining mode and not further developed anymore. In the meantime 
> the dm-developement team has put out new dm-target, which can be used 
> by the tool.
>
> I would like to fork the latest RC and put on github, to continue 
> developing the tool. I will give it a slightly new name, so people 
> will not confuse it with the original. My plan is to add the support 
> for new dm-targets and also implement more partition tables, starting 
> with GPT.
>
> I am not really good at generating new names, but here are some ideas.
>
> dmraid-fbmw (forked by Mark-Willem)
> dmraid-fu (follow-up)
> dmraid-ext (extended version)
>
> So my question which name you think is a good one for the forked?
>
> And who can I connect if I have some questions about the tool.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Mark-Willem Jansen
>
>
>
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    Hi Mark-Willem Jansen<br>
    <br>
    You may want to speak with Phillip Susi of the Ubuntu Dmraid team.<br>
    He built a set of patches a long while ago that I don't think got
    included in the stable dmraid.<br>
    He knows the ins and outs of dmraid and has spends a lot of time bug
    fixing during Ubuntu release cycles.<br>
    <br>
    I think the main reason that this project has died is because it is
    a very niche market.<br>
    It's usually only used by the people who run a dual boot with
    Windows as Mdadm is far superior for pure Linux installs.<br>
    <br>
    Also GPT can already be used on top of dmraid, as far as I know you
    use dmraid to initialise the block devs and kpartx to deal with
    partitions.<br>
    <br>
    Good luck and best regards,<br>
    Danny<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/07/12 09:20, Mark-Willem Jansen
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        Dear dmraid developers,<br>
        <br>
        Sometime in this mail-list it was said that the program dmraid
        was in maintaining mode and not further developed anymore. In
        the meantime the dm-developement team has put out new dm-target,
        which can be used by the tool.<br>
        <br>
        I would like to fork the latest RC and put on github, to
        continue developing the tool. I will give it a slightly new
        name, so people will not confuse it with the original. My plan
        is to add the support for new dm-targets and also implement more
        partition tables, starting with GPT.<br>
        <br>
        I am not really good at generating new names, but here are some
        ideas.<br>
        <br>
        dmraid-fbmw (forked by Mark-Willem)<br>
        dmraid-fu (follow-up)<br>
        dmraid-ext (extended version)<br>
        <br>
        So my question which name you think is a good one for the
        forked?<br>
        <br>
        And who can I connect if I have some questions about the tool.<br>
        <br>
        Greetings,<br>
        <br>
        Mark-Willem Jansen<br>
        <br>
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