Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jun 1999 15:37:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pagecache-2.3.9-H3, bmap & ext2fs cleanup patch |
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On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> BTW, I think that a filesystem that span over multiple devices could make > better choices than raid, right?
no, RAID is really a different concept, and it's filesystem independent. multi-device filesystems _might_ be useful but the cleanest way of handling striping and/or redundancy is IMO MD at the block device layer. Caching and block allocation decisions are best done on the filesystem level.
-- mingo
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