Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[ross@lug.udel.edu (Ross Vandegrift)]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:43:13AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> dm and md are just two different interface styles to various bits of
> this.  Neither is clearly better than the other, partly because
> different people have different tastes.

Here's why it's great to have both: they have different toolkits.  I'm
really familiar with md's toolkit.  I can do most anything I need.
But I'll bet that I've never gotten a pvmove to finish sucessfully
because I am doing something wrong and I don't know it.

Becuase we're talking about data integrity, the toolkit issue alone
makes it worth keeping both code paths.  md does 90% of what I need,
so why should I spend the time to learn a new system that doesn't
offer any advantages?

[1] I'm intentionally neglecting the 4k stack issue

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross@lug.udel.edu

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
	--St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37