From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 4 of 4] "Faulty" personality of md
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:31:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041102093141.GH32712@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1COpUP-000396-JF@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
On 2004-11-02T14:37:45, NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> The 'faulty' personality provides a layer over any block device
> in which errors may be synthesised.
>
> A variety of errors are possible including transient and persistent
> read and write errors, and read errors that persist until the next
> write.
>
> There error mode can be changed on a live array.
Duplicates functionality already present with the device-mapper error
target, or functionality present with the (not yet merged) flakey dm
target.
I think we should strive for convergence, not for more duplication.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>
--
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-02 3:37 [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-11-02 3:37 ` [PATCH md 1 of 4] Fix problem with md/linear for devices larger than 2 terabytes NeilBrown
2004-11-02 3:37 ` [PATCH md 3 of 4] Delete unplug timer before shutting down md array NeilBrown
2004-11-02 4:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02 5:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02 4:28 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-02 5:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02 7:12 ` Luca Berra
2004-11-03 0:29 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-03 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-04 9:21 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-05 8:52 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-07 23:38 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-07 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-08 1:21 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-08 11:23 ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-02 3:37 ` [PATCH md 4 of 4] "Faulty" personality of md NeilBrown
2004-11-02 9:31 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2004-11-02 23:30 ` Neil Brown
2004-11-02 3:37 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem NeilBrown
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