Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:33:32 +1000 | Subject | Re: Patent or not patent a new idea |
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On Tuesday June 26, nodes@rillion.net wrote: > > Thanks for the brief howto there. I'll install the mdadm suite and > experiment. It seems like a userspace driver?
mdadm is a userspace tool for managing the 'md' driver which is in the linux kernel.
> > I don't know what you mean by '2'. > > 2 meant in the way that a driver for a PC raid card is not much use on > a Sparc.
Ahh... That is one of the great things about Linux. You code in C, and the driver works on every architecture (providing you are reasonably careful, and the arch actually supports the hardware). :-)
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