From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Jacek Danecki <jacek.danecki@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ed Ciechanowski <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:38:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244133536.5541.48.camel@o> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20906031026s49a5a694hb91db40dc05a2580@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:26 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:56 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> >> As for integrating the two code bases.... people have been suggesting
> >> that for years, but I suspect few of them have looked deeply at the
> >> practicalities. Apparently it was suggested at the recent "storage
> >> summit". However as the primary md and dm developers were absent, I
> >> have doubts about how truly well-informed that conversation could have
> >> been.
> >
> > Agreed, we'd need face-time and talk issues through in order to come up
> > with any such plan for md+dm integration.
> >
>
> What are your general impressions of dmraid using md kernel
> infrastructure for raid level support?
At the time of the dmraid project start, we already had libdevmapper
which was suitable to handle in-kernel device manipulation with no
adequate on the MD side so it was the appropriate interface to use.
Cheers,
Heinz
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Ed Ciechanowski <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>,
Jacek Danecki <jacek.danecki@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:38:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1244133536.5541.48.camel@o> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20906031026s49a5a694hb91db40dc05a2580@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:26 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:56 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> >> As for integrating the two code bases.... people have been suggesting
> >> that for years, but I suspect few of them have looked deeply at the
> >> practicalities. Apparently it was suggested at the recent "storage
> >> summit". However as the primary md and dm developers were absent, I
> >> have doubts about how truly well-informed that conversation could have
> >> been.
> >
> > Agreed, we'd need face-time and talk issues through in order to come up
> > with any such plan for md+dm integration.
> >
>
> What are your general impressions of dmraid using md kernel
> infrastructure for raid level support?
At the time of the dmraid project start, we already had libdevmapper
which was suitable to handle in-kernel device manipulation with no
adequate on the MD side so it was the appropriate interface to use.
Cheers,
Heinz
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 5:50 ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Neil Brown
2009-06-02 20:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-06-02 22:58 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-02 22:58 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-03 3:56 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-03 13:01 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2009-06-03 22:59 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-04 9:00 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2009-06-03 14:42 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2009-06-03 14:42 ` [dm-devel] " Heinz Mauelshagen
2009-06-03 17:26 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-03 17:26 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-04 16:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen [this message]
2009-06-04 16:38 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2009-06-08 23:32 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-09 16:29 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2009-06-09 16:29 ` [dm-devel] " Heinz Mauelshagen
2009-06-04 15:33 ` Larry Dickson
2009-06-04 1:52 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2009-06-04 2:30 ` Neil Brown
2009-06-06 23:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-06-08 23:36 ` Neil Brown
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