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[alejandroperezlopez]

Hey! first of all I would like to congratulate all the people working on this fork. Unraid's parity system has many advances over on-demand parity systems like Snapraid, and having it as an open source component is very useful.

I would like to ask a question about the project description, it says that it's based on the "md" kernel driver modified by Unraid that is opensource but I was unable to find the source of that "component", I mean:

Is there an official repository where that "kernel driver" is published? is the module just collected from the Unraid's zip?

I've checked Unraid's official Github repo and I found nothing regarding that kernel driver.

Thanks in advance. And, once again, thanks for the work done here.

[qvr]

As far as I'm aware, upstream only ships the driver source with the Unraid OS release archives. The sources are always in patch format against that current upstream kernel version, so there's no real version history or official git repository.

For the purposes of this project, I have a limited version history of the upstream sources in the upstream branch, but that's only the last 4 releases (that had changes to the driver source), to cover the kernel versions I wanted nonraid to support.

I then handle rebasing the nonraid patches on top of the upstream branch in separate kernel version branches, for example nonraid-6.12, and then finally the changes from those branches get merged into main.

[alejandroperezlopez]

Thank you for the quick answer @qvr ! Unraid being Unraid.. 🤣 they could have a proper repo for that but..

I think that keeping that versioning is perfect so we could have references there for the future.

Crystal clear :)