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What do we gain by this addition? In other words, is dmraid widely used?
Like you, I'm wondering , it seems that dmraid is a specific libblockdev dependency, nevertheless, libblockdev compiles without, with the --without-dm option, and it seem that does not affect udisks.
You are kidding, right? Or, you live on Mars and you aren't well informed about what happens on Earth?
There is another solution to access the native RAIDs, masivelly used by Windows, while using Linux? (damn, where is the emoticon for facepalm?)
Aside from a managed-by-someone-else workstation at my day job, I've not had a Windows machine since 2004. Exactly why would I know this? More importantly, I'm not convinced that it's necessary even so - perhaps useful for someone dual-booting Windows and Linux, but meh.
Let's go to basics. You seen some motherboards being advertised as supporting RAID? Usually RAID0 or RAID1, but the brave ones going up to RAID5?
That's called "native RAID", given by the very motherboard, and it is widely used under Windows. And supported on Linux by DMRAID.
IF you say MEHto the RAID support from motherboards, with all respect I will say nothing more, because I do not want to go nuts and starting saying brute things.
For the sake of all widely enlisted gods, God, Allah, Buddha and so on... what a elitist POV, from a glass castle!
Last edited by Darth Vader; 11-22-2017 at 08:02 PM.
Well, I'm convinced, thanks to your friendly approach to clarifying the issue. I have no idea why nobody usually listens to you.
On a serious note, I actually have encountered those motherboards before, and I had no idea that the way to use that "RAID" support was dmraid. I've always preferred software RAID via mdadm, although I'll admit that the standalone RAID cards (e.g. Dell's) are fine.
Oh, and since you promised to say no more: re RAID support on motherboards, MEH.
Last edited by rworkman; 11-22-2017 at 08:38 PM.
Reason: RAID support on motherboards: MEH.
I have a friend being an administrator for more than 15 years (Linux/Windows).
If you tell him to use the hardware RAID that comes with motherboard, he'll tell you to go fuck yourself.
I have a friend being an administrator for more than 15 years (Linux/Windows).
If you tell him to use the hardware RAID that comes with motherboard, he'll tell you to go fuck yourself.
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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski
I agree - we wasted enormous time and money to find an identical motherboard, just to recover data from that "hardware raid". I'd advise to stick to software raid, or professional controllers.
I agree - we wasted enormous time and money to find an identical motherboard, just to recover data from that "hardware raid". I'd advise to stick to software raid, or professional controllers.
In theory, linux dmraid could do the recovery part. Obviously no experience there though :-)
Darth, sorry for my ignorance, but I only have two linux workstation, included a replacement, a laptop under windows, to manage my son's accounting, but I'm just trying to help positively, because I have the time, and that I like that, so the hardware raid, I just know it exists, because I probably read it somewhere...., i am just a user, I am not an engineer
Since hostname returns the FQDN, dhcpcd should use the "hostname_short" config option instead of "hostname" so that the DNS does not name the machine hostname.domain.domain ;-)
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