From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:48:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47252DE3.5090105@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1193519471.10336.359.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com>
Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:41 -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
>
>> Actually, after doing some research, here's what I've found:
>>
> I should note that both the lvm code and raid code are simplistic at the
> moment. For example, the raid5 mapping only supports the default raid5
> layout. If you use any other layout, game over. Getting it to work
> with version 1.1 or 1.2 superblocks probably wouldn't be that hard, but
> getting it to the point where it handles all the relevant setups
> properly would require a reasonable amount of coding.
>
>
My first thought is that after the /boot partition is read (assuming you
use one) restrictions go away. Performance of /boot is not much of an
issue, for me at least, but more complex setups are sometimes need for
the rest of the system.
Thanks for the research.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-19 14:34 Time to deprecate old RAID formats? John Stoffel
2007-10-19 15:09 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 15:46 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:15 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 16:35 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 16:38 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:40 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 16:44 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 16:45 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 17:04 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:05 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-19 17:23 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:47 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-20 18:38 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-20 20:02 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 22:43 ` chunk size (was Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) Michal Soltys
2007-10-20 13:29 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-23 19:21 ` Michal Soltys
2007-10-24 0:14 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 17:11 ` Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Doug Ledford
2007-10-19 18:39 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-19 21:23 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-19 21:42 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 7:53 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-20 13:11 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 9:54 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 16:22 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-26 17:06 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-27 10:34 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-26 18:52 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 22:30 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-28 0:26 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-28 14:13 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-28 17:47 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 8:41 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 15:30 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 21:44 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-29 23:05 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-30 3:10 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-30 6:55 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-30 16:48 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-27 8:00 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-27 20:09 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-28 13:46 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-23 23:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-23 23:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-24 0:09 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 23:55 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-25 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25 8:09 ` David Greaves
2007-10-26 6:16 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-26 14:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-26 18:41 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-26 22:20 ` Gabor Gombas
2007-10-26 22:58 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-27 11:11 ` Luca Berra
2007-10-27 15:20 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-28 0:18 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 0:44 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-27 21:11 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-29 0:48 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2007-10-30 3:25 ` Neil Brown
2007-11-02 12:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 7:01 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-25 14:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 15:00 ` David Greaves
2007-10-26 5:56 ` Neil Brown
2007-10-24 14:00 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-24 15:18 ` Mike Snitzer
2007-10-24 15:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-20 14:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-20 14:24 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 14:52 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-20 15:07 ` Iustin Pop
2007-10-20 15:36 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-20 18:24 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-22 20:39 ` John Stoffel
2007-10-22 22:29 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-10-24 0:42 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 9:40 ` David Greaves
2007-10-24 20:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-25 16:29 ` Doug Ledford
2007-11-01 21:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-11-02 15:50 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-24 0:36 ` Doug Ledford
2007-10-23 23:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-19 16:34 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-23 23:19 ` Bill Davidsen
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