Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review

[Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>]

On 2004-03-25T15:59:00,
   "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com> said:

> The fact of the matter is that neither EMD nor DM provide a generic
> morphing capability.  If this is desirable, we can discuss how it could
> be achieved, but my initial belief is that attempting any type of
> complicated morphing from userland would be slow, prone to deadlocks,
> and thus difficult to achieve in a fashion that guaranteed no loss of
> data in the face of unexpected system restarts.

Uhm. DM sort of does (at least where the morphing amounts to resyncing a
part of the stripe, ie adding a new mirror, RAID1->4, RAID5->6 etc).
Freeze, load new mapping, continue.

I agree that more complex morphings (RAID1->RAID5 or vice-versa in
particular) are more difficult to get right, but are not that often
needed online - or if they are, typically such scenarios will have
enough temporary storage to create the new target, RAID1 over,
disconnect the old part and free it, which will work just fine with DM.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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