Miles Fidelman wrote: > On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > > > > Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Now who's being pedantic? > > Precisely. > > > > > And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it > > > doesn't > > > perform the raid function. > > And it's OK to refer to the whole thing as an mdadm RAID. > > No.. if you want to be pedantic, the proper terminology is "Linux Raid" or > "md RAID."?? mdadm is one of several admin programs available
What are the others, please? (That will work on a modern system, say, Debian stable or oldstable or unstable.) I think there's precisely one -- libblockdev2. > saying "mdadm raid" is like saying "libvert hypervisor" - when what you > really mean is Xen, or KVM, or ESXI - accessed through libvert > > When you're building systems, details matter. libvirt. -dsr-