Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:57:24 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction |
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On 2006-01-20T19:36:21, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Then 'dmraid' (or a similar tool) can use 'dm' interfaces for some > > raid levels and 'md' interfaces for others. > Yes, that's possible but there's recommendations to have a native target > for dm to do RAID5, so I started to implement it.
Can you answer me what the recommendations are based on?
I understand wanting to manage both via the same framework, but duplicating the code is just ... wrong.
What's gained by it? Why not provide a dm-md wrapper which could then load/interface to all md personalities?
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée
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