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    SubjectRe: 2.5 'what to expect'
    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...

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


    > > > 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.

    Jeff



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