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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: ben <benscott@nwlink.com>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is the new RAID implementation going to deprecate	traditional stripes and mirrors?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 20:10:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120519191004.GN29330@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1816793.YNuiVBaGhv@laptop>

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:58:54AM -0700, ben wrote:
> Does all the new RAID MD support mean the standard LVM type of mirrors and 
> stripes will go away or at least not be further developed?
 
Current thinking:

Stripes remain as-is (they're very simple, it's not worth changing).

Preferred mirror switches to md, but existing mirror implementation
remains available and continues to be used for temporary mirrors like 
pvmove.

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-19 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-19 18:58 [linux-lvm] Is the new RAID implementation going to deprecate traditional stripes and mirrors? ben
2012-05-19 19:10 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2012-05-19 20:31   ` Ron Johnson
2012-05-22 19:08     ` Brassow Jonathan

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