Raid 0 to 5

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> ri == r ibbotson <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:

ri> I've noticed that when I start my Linux box I get a
ri> message which says that raid 0 to 5 have/has been loaded. I
ri> didn't put this software into my machine. It selected itself.
ri> How do I remove or delete it ? Does anyone know which rpm I
ri> remove to get rid of the offending application.

My best guess is: the kernel. Oops. Check to see what is issuing the
messages; I'll bet it's vmlinux hisself.

RAID = redundant array of independent disks. A performance
optimization: speed or safety, or maybe both. The 0-5 are various
levels of implementation of features. It's the multiple
device driver that you can [de]select in kernel config. I don't
think this can be modularized at the present time; you'll have to
rebuild.

There's also raidtools; that's on Debian, I dunno what they'd be
called on SuSE, I think you're running? I suspect that it's not an
addon package of utilities, though, it's probably the kernel itself.

I think this trend of the various distributions toward bloating
kernels through feeping creaturitis is a bad idea....

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