From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
To: Eric <erpo41@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] store RAID stride in superblock
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:33:25 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46457BD5.8040301@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178957506.20145.41.camel@eric-laptop>
Eric wrote:
> The concept is really tempting. RAID is good, and not asking the user
> for information that the system can find out for itself is good too.
>
> In the unlikely event that the RAID stride were to change, I think the
> autodetect-each-time method would be superior to the store-in-superblock
> method. Doubly so if the code to detect MD and LVM stride is lean and
> clean.
true, but in some cases (hardware raid, SAN, etc) there is no easy way
to learn that other than asking user.
thanks, Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-12 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-12 2:02 [RFC] store RAID stride in superblock Andreas Dilger
2007-05-12 2:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-05-12 8:11 ` Eric
2007-05-12 8:33 ` Alex Tomas [this message]
2007-05-12 9:32 ` Eric
2007-05-12 9:38 ` Alex Tomas
2007-05-12 16:14 ` Eric
2007-05-12 15:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-19 2:08 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-24 11:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-24 14:15 ` Rupesh Thakare
2007-05-31 16:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-31 20:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-31 21:02 ` Kalpak Shah
2007-05-31 21:33 ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-31 22:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-05-31 22:03 ` Andreas Dilger
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