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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Future of md multipath
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:49:56 +1100
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In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Tuesday March 3
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Tuesday March 3, hch@lst.de wrote:
> Just noticed that we still have the old md-based multipath driver
> in the tree, which seem to not have gotten any attention since we
> got dm multipath.
> 
> Is there any reason to keep it or should we deprecate it and kill
> it after a couple of kernel releases?

I'm in favour of deprecating it.  Whenever I hear of people using it I
suggest dm-multipath, but there could people I don't here about.
I think the upcoming mdadm-3.0 will need a compile-time option to
enable multipath, so people will only get it if they really really
want it.

So feel free to propose patches.

Thanks :-)

NeilBrown