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From: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
To: mingz@ele.uri.edu
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: write only raid1
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:05:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41922E3E.7050206@steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100096418.3190.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Ming Zhang wrote:

> is there any technical issue that lead not to be implemented?

No. In fact, it has been implemented. Both Peter T. Breuer and I have 
come up with slightly different patches to implement the write only 
functionality.

> is there any place to find previous discussion on this? i try the google
> but fail. i do no know which key word can find that. thx.

Try the archives of this mailing list:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&r=1&w=2

This has been discussed a couple of times and patches have been posted 
to the list in the past.

--
Paul



> On Thursday November 4, mingz@ele.uri.edu wrote:
> 
>>Hi, folks?
>>
>>I would like to know if current RAID1 support or willing to support a
>>RAID1 with a write only device? For example, u can setup 2 disks to
> 
> form
> 
>>a raid1, you fork 2 writes to both disks while you only read from one.
>>this will be very useful for logging purpose or replication.
> 
> 
> This functionality has been discussed, but have not been implemented
> in a released kernel yet.
> 
> NeilBrown
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-10 14:20 write only raid1 Ming Zhang
2004-11-10 15:05 ` Paul Clements [this message]
2004-11-10 15:45   ` Ming Zhang
2004-11-10 15:56     ` Paul Clements
2004-11-10 16:13       ` Ming Zhang

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