Re: 2.5 'what to expect'

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > > - The hptraid/promise RAID drivers are currently non functional, and
> > > >   will probably be converted to use device-mapper.
> >
> > Please put software RAID here to avoid confusion.
>
> That introduces confusion with dev/md, which is what people have
> traditionally called software RAID, IMO...

s/software RAID/propertiary software RAIDs/

> I like arjan's "fakeraid" or "ataraid" names.  ;-)

"fakeraid" sounds good. :-)

> > > > IDE.
> > > > ~~~~
> > > > - Known problems with the current IDE code.
> > > >   o  Serverworks OSB4 may panic on bad blocks or other non fatal errors
> > > FIXED
> > > >   o  PCMCIA IDE hangs on eject
> > > Should be fixed in 2.5, fixed(ish) in 2.4
> > > >   o  ide_scsi is completely broken in 2.5.x. Known problem. If you need it
> > > >      either use 2.4 or fix it 8)
> > > > - IDE disk geometry translators like OnTrack, EZ Partition, Disk Manager
> > > >   are no longer supported. The only way forward is to remove the translator
> > > >   from the drive, and start over.
> > >
> > > Or to use device mapper to remap the disk.
> >
> > "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" boot options can be used.
> > Or can I remove them?
>
> You can remove them... if there is a userspace component that handles
> this.  As much as I would love to do so, we can't just remove components
> that DM _can_ handle ;-) ;-)  If so, we could go ahead and remove MD
> raid0 too, and such.

How userspace component can help if you have ie. On-Track DM
on your boot device?

I think you missed my point :-).

I think if somebody adds On-Track and EZ auto-detection to device mapper
I can safely remove these ide boot options...

--
Bartlomiej

> 	Jeff