Re: RAID-on-RAID

[Greg Oster <oster%cs.usask.ca@localhost>]

der Mouse writes:
> How hard would it be to make autoconfigured RAID-on-RAID work?  I had a
> look at the code and it looks to me as though it'd just be a question
> of scanning new RAID units for partitions of type RAID as they get
> autoconfigured, repeating until nothing more happens.
> 
> Am I missing something?  I have a machine (the same one on which I've
> been doing all my recent RAIDframe playing) on which it would be useful
> to autoconfigure RAID-on-RAID.

Wolfgang Stukenbrock proposed some patches in PR#39784, but I've not 
had a chance to look closely at them...

IIRC, configuring them up was easier than getting the unconfigures 
done in the right order... (and actually getting the devices to close 
properly)

Later...

Greg Oster