Re: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] RAID-level terminology change

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On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:49:53PM +0000, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > Using an asterisk '*' in something will be used as a command line argument risks having the shell expand it. Sticking to pure alphanumeric names would be better.
> 
>    Yeah, David's just pointed this out on IRC. After a bit of fiddling
> around with various options, I like using X.

I'd like to see something that can exist as na identifier or can be
copy-pasted in one click, but '*' being a shell meta-character is IMO
stronger argument against using it.

>    I'm also going to use lowercase c,s,p, because it seems to be
> easier to read with the different-height characters. So we end up
> with, e.g.
> 
> 1c      (single)
> 2cXs    (RAID-10)
> 1cXs2p  (RAID-6)

This form looks ok to me.

david
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