Re: [PATCH/RFC] Linux MTD striping middle layer

Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-22T17:28:55Z

Nicolas,

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 12:17 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Please stop being so difficult with Alexander.
Am I? Did I ask something bad, pointers please? I just want to realize
what does it do and to review it, nothing bad in this. Moreover, this is
good that somebody do this, right?

> The explanations provided so far might not be stellar English, but I
> consider them still quite understandable. A disk stripe is a common
> concept in computer science so simply saying that the same technique can
> be applied to flash storage should be enough for you to grasp the whole
> idea. If you are not familiar with the concept it is not Alexander's
> fault and I don't think he should lecture you on the topic.
Fine, I wrote I didn't realize this and that I should study RAID first,
right? What's wrong here?

> And regarding my opinion about a MTD stripe layer, well I think this is
> a damn good idea and I wish I had thought about it before myself. It is
> indeed a concept entirely separate from the MTD concat layer. And it
> doesn't obsolete the concat layer in any ways either. Both have serious
> advantages and inconvenients to consider before selecting either of
> those.
Did I say they are similar? I did not say anything about concatenation.
Pointers please.

Are you sure I'm the right person you put to the "To:" field?

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.