From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34333 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753140Ab3ESLEW (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 May 2013 07:04:22 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ue1PV-0000qa-5Y for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 19 May 2013 13:04:17 +0200 Received: from cpc21-stap10-2-0-cust974.12-2.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.0.163.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2013 13:04:17 +0200 Received: from m_btrfs by cpc21-stap10-2-0-cust974.12-2.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 19 May 2013 13:04:17 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Martin Subject: Re: Virtual Device Support Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <518CFE3A.3080900@chinilu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-Reply-To: <518CFE3A.3080900@chinilu.com> Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/05/13 15:03, George Mitchell wrote: > One the things that is frustrating me the most at this point from a user > perspective ... The current method of simply using a > random member device or a LABEL or a UUID is just not working well for > me. Having a well thought out virtual device infrastructure would... Sorry, I'm a bit lost for your comments... What is your use case and what are you hoping/expecting to see? I've been following development of btrfs for a while and I'm looking forward to use it to efficiently replace some of the very useful features of LVM2, drbd, and md-raid that I'm using at present... OK, so the way of managing all that is going to be a little different. How would you want that? Regards, Martin