#2759 Issue closed: Rename disklayout.conf keyword 'raid' into 'raidarray'

Labels: cleanup, fixed / solved / done

jsmeix opened issue at 2022-02-09 12:27:

In current GitHub master code we have since
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/7a944cf059135a044940408bbdc9c0c77c299322
the new disklayout.conf keyword raiddisk

Currently that violates the documented "Disk layout file syntax" in
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/user-guide/06-layout-configuration.adoc
that reads in particular

None of the component keywords is a leading substring of another
component keyword (e.g. disk is not a leading substring of opaldisk)
so that one can get the lines that belong to a particular component
via simple commands like

grep ^keyword /var/lib/rear/layout/disklayout.conf

I prefer to keep that simple grep method over
keeping backward compatibility in disklayout.conf
so I need to rename 'raid' into 'raidarray'
and of course adapt all code that uses the 'raid' keyword.

Via
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/53757eab1447c712fb7c8e44be9c8b3b3ffd9faa
I describe that one cannot rely on backward compatibility.

See also
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2750#issuecomment-1027714280
and
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2750#issuecomment-1029030809

jsmeix commented at 2022-02-09 12:56:

@rear/contributors
please tell me when you think I should not rename 'raid' into 'raidarray'.

jsmeix commented at 2022-05-11 11:08:

With https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/2800 merged
this issue is done.

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