On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options >> (google "Time to deprecate old RAID formats?") and the superblocks >> to emphasise the location and data structure. Would it be good to >> introduce the new names at the same time as changing the default >> format/on-disk-location? > > Yes, I suggested some layout names, as did a few other people, and > a few changes to separate metadata type and position were > discussed. BUT, changing the default layout, no matter how "better" > it seems, is trumped by "breaks existing setups and user practice."
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