[webmin-l] Request for two great features in the Linux RAID module.

[Caspar S. <c....@tr...>]

Hi,

I would like to request for two features of the Linux RAID
subsystem to be integrated into webmin.

1) It would be very
nice to be able to assign GLOBAL spares to RAID devices. GLOBAL spares are
spares which are shared among RAID devices. This is now made possible with
the 'spare-group'  option in the mdadm.conf file. Having disks in the
same spare-group shares them among raid devices. Very handy in my
opinion.

2) It is not possible to add unpartitioned disks as
RAID disk inside the RAID Module at this moment. You first have to create
a partition (Linux RAID) on each disk for the module to see them as usable
disks. The real big advantage for not having to use partitions is
performance. Unpartitioned raid devices perform better then partitioned
one because the partition breaks the alignment of the disks.

Kind regards,
Caspar Smit