From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Fwd: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review] Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:09:16 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040317190916.GA24118@lst.de> References: <405899E8.8070806@pobox.com> <20040317183756.GA23667@lst.de> <2241002704.1079549645@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> <20040317190117.GA23968@lst.de> <2260532704.1079550351@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2260532704.1079550351@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:05:51PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > Hmm. I didn't realize that Jeff was ever part of this thread. > I authored the text that you quoted and was just surprised to see > Jeff's name near it. Never mind. he forwarded the mail to me, and I didn't remove his name from the mutt inserted when replying, not intentional, but with the double quotes it shouldn't be that confusing either.. > I'm aware of Neil's past comments on the subject, but I was not aware > of a more full discussion on what this means in terms of lost functionality > for Linux. I would like to have that discussion. I'm more than willing > to adjust our strategy once that discussion takes place and a consensus > is reached. We're not far enough to actually removing functionlly yet. For that early userspace needs to get a little more mature and more widely used. We're not going to add more functionaly like that. though.