Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:46:55 +1100 | Subject | Re: Block layer still stack abuser? |
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On Thursday February 22, hch@infradead.org wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > Might this: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 > > > > relate to your question? > > If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a > > patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential > > issues in dm that seem to be holding it up. > > What are the current blocking issues? There are a lot of users of dm/md > double-stacking (e.g. mirroring + multipath) that are in deep trouble > currently and could be helped greatly with this patch.
All I know is what is in that mail message that I linked to.
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