On Tuesday January 17, [email protected] wrote:
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 06:26, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> > This is about code complexity/bloat. It's already complex enouth.
> > I rely on the stability of the linux softraid subsystem, and want
> > it to be reliable. Adding more features, especially non-trivial
> > ones, does not buy you bugfree raid subsystem, just the opposite:
> > it will have more chances to crash, to eat your data etc, and will
> > be harder in finding/fixing bugs.
>
> What part of: "You will need to enable the experimental
> MD_RAID5_RESHAPE config option for this to work." isn't bvious? If
> you don't want this feature, either don't turn on
> CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE, or don't use the raid5 mdadm reshaping
> command.
This isn't really a fair comment. CONFIG_MD_RAID5_RESHAPE just
enables the code. All the code is included whether this config option
is set or not. So if code-bloat were an issue, the config option
wouldn't answer it.
NeilBrown
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