old_testing_critpath notifications

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 22:09 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > We're working on this. It won't always be practical, however; in the
> > current case, for example, you need specific hardware to test mdadm.
> 
> Uh, this is md, not dm, you don't need very special HARDWARE (basically only 
> 2 HDDs, which do not even have to be identical, and you might even get away 
> with only 1 for testing, with absymal performance of course), you do need a 
> special setup though, which means repartitioning, and so isn't practical to 
> test on a production machine which isn't already set up that way.

mdadm is also used to support Intel BIOS RAID, so you need an
appropriate motherboard to test that path.
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