[Devil-linux-develop] Re: ANNOUCE: mdctl 0.6 available (mdadm 0.7 now available) (fwd)

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:15:05 +1100 (EST)
From: Neil Brown <ne...@cs...>
To: KELEMEN Peter <fu...@el...>
Cc: lin...@vg...
Subject: Re: ANNOUCE: mdctl 0.6 available (mdadm 0.7 now available)

On Thursday March 7, fu...@el... wrote:
> * Neil Brown (ne...@cs...) [20020307 10:20]:
>
> Neil,
>
> > it is expected that the name will change when 1.0 comes out,
> > probably to mdadmin (it is easier to pronounce)
>
> Personally I don't think it's a good idea to change the name; why
> worry about pronouncing it as 'em-dee-control'?

That's a fair comment (and I hope you don't mind be copying my reply
to the list) but I really don't like mdctl.
Your are right that changing names can be painful, so if it has to
happen it is better to do it sooner than later.  So I have done it.

I looked at unique base names in the debian distribution, and found:

 22 end with adm
 51 end with admin
 72 end with ctl

Which makes ctl the most popular (but I still don't like pronouncing
it (*)) and 'adm' the underdog.
And 'mdadm' is pleasantly palandromic.  So I have taken the plunge and
changed the name without waiting for 1.0.  I promise it won't be
changed again.

mdadm 0.7 can be found at
  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
or
  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdctl/

(*) em-dee-con-trol is 4 syllables and we Australian are notoriously
lazy and just would never bother with such a long word.
I tend to pronounce it em-dee-k-tl which is as many syllables, but
they are shorter (we tend to swallow lots of vowels anyway) and the
hard 'k-t' sound is unpleasant (to my anglic ear).
em-dee-ad-m, or even md-adm is softer and so (to me) more pleasant.

Change Log:

Changes Prior to 0.7 release

    -   Fix makefile to install binary at /sbin and not /sbin/sbin
	Also install man page.
    -   Add --zero-superblock based on --destroywithextremeprejudice
	from Dale Stephenson <st...@sn...>
    -   change name to mdadm.  It is palandromic, and much nicer to pronouce.



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