Re: Proposed enhancements to MD

[Jeff Garzik]

mutex wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:34:10PM -0700 or thereabouts, Scott Long wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > Adaptec has been looking at the MD driver for a foundation for their
> > Open-Source software RAID stack.  This will help us provide full
> > and open support for current and future Adaptec RAID products (as
> > opposed to the limited support through closed drivers that we have now).
> >
> > While MD is fairly functional and clean, there are a number of 
> > enhancements to it that we have been working on for a while and would
> > like to push out to the community for review and integration.  These
> > include:
>
>
>
> How about a endian safe superblock ?  Seriously, is that a 'bug' or a
> 'feature' ?  Or do people just not care.


There was a thread discussing md's new superblock design, did you 
research/follow that?  neilb was actively soliciting comments and there 
was an amount of discussion.

	Jeff



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