Re: RAID-1 & 5 commented in /usr/src/linux-2.3.47/drivers/block/Configure.in

From: Thomas Rottler (tom@lg.schule.neu-ulm.de)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 19:47:51 EST


On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 02:19:14PM -0500, Ricky Beam wrote:
> >Does someone know why in
> >/usr/src/linux-2.3.47/drivers/block/Configure.in
> >at line 209,10
> >
> ># tristate ' RAID-1 (mirroring) mode' CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING
> ># tristate ' RAID-4/RAID-5 mode' CONFIG_MD_RAID5
> >
> >are commented?
>
> Because the code for handling them haven't been integrated into 2.3, yet.
> In particular, RADI-5 is missing xor.c/h... the kernel will not compile
> without it when RAID-5 is enabled (even as a module.)

They also won't compile because of some restructuring of the code. I've tried
to compile RAID-1 (manually) but a lot of data structures have changed.
So we all have to wait till someone (who knows the RAID code) adapts these
parts
too...

Thomas

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