From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Mamedov Subject: Re: wish for Linux MD mirrored raid types Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 13:31:59 +0600 Message-ID: <20110506133159.30c66519@natsu> References: <20110506071752.GA22063@www2.open-std.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/2B=GTVJ._1xv_m7v=Fd7SW+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110506071752.GA22063@www2.open-std.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Keld =?UTF-8?B?SsO4cm4=?= Simonsen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids --Sig_/2B=GTVJ._1xv_m7v=Fd7SW+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 6 May 2011 09:17:52 +0200 Keld J=C3=B8rn Simonsen wrote: > I would like linux MD raid10 functionality to be part of the Linux MD > RAID1 module, and be called raid1. This is in accordance with the > use of the RAID1 term as standadized by SNIA. In fact the RAID10-offset > layout is an implementation of a SNIA RAID specification. The RAID10-near > layout is an implementation of a simple RAID layout. And the RAID10-far > layout is just another layout far a mirrored RAID. So all these types > could just be defined as different RAID1 layouts. RAID1 is RAID1, RAID10 is RAID10. RAID1 on 4 drives is very different from RAID10 on 4 drives. Don't add confusion by trying to rename RAID10 to RAID1. --=20 With respect, Roman --Sig_/2B=GTVJ._1xv_m7v=Fd7SW+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3Do+8ACgkQTLKSvz+PZwhlzACZAbZ47QeCx5LL7ZMuYyFyM9in Nb4AoIvOTllopaX0EcwK3qRsRG2h0lrr =s6/9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2B=GTVJ._1xv_m7v=Fd7SW+--