Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:44:22 -0500 | From | Wakko Warner <> | Subject | Re: Proposed enhancements to MD |
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> > Adaptec has been looking at the MD driver for a foundation for their > > Open-Source software RAID stack. > > Hi, > > Is there a (good) reason you didn't use Device Mapper for this? It > really sounds like Device Mapper is the way to go to parse and use > raid-like formats to the kernel, since it's designed to be independent > of on disk formats, unlike MD.
As I've understood it, the configuration for DM is userspace and the kernel can't do any auto detection. This would be a "put off" for me to use as a root filesystem. Configurations like this (and lvm too last I looked at it) require an initrd or some other way of setting up the device. Unfortunately this means that there's configs in 2 locations (one not easily available, if using initrd. easily != mounting via loop!)
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