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From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 4 of 4] "Faulty" personality of md
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:31:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041102093141.GH32712@marowsky-bree.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1COpUP-000396-JF@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

On 2004-11-02T14:37:45, NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> The 'faulty' personality provides a layer over any block device
> in which errors may be synthesised.
> 
> A variety of errors are possible including transient and persistent
> read and write errors, and read errors that persist until the next
> write.
> 
> There error mode can be changed on a live array.

Duplicates functionality already present with the device-mapper error
target, or functionality present with the (not yet merged) flakey dm
target.

I think we should strive for convergence, not for more duplication.


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

-- 
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-02  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-02  3:37 [PATCH md 0 of 4] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-11-02  3:37 ` [PATCH md 2 of 4] Fix raid6 problem NeilBrown
2004-11-02  3:37 ` [PATCH md 3 of 4] Delete unplug timer before shutting down md array NeilBrown
2004-11-02  4:57   ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02  5:00     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02  4:28       ` Neil Brown
2004-11-02  5:33         ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-02  7:12           ` Luca Berra
2004-11-03  0:29             ` Neil Brown
2004-11-03 23:03   ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-04  9:21     ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-05  8:52       ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-07 23:38         ` Neil Brown
2004-11-07 23:42           ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-08  1:21             ` Neil Brown
2004-11-08 11:23             ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-02  3:37 ` [PATCH md 1 of 4] Fix problem with md/linear for devices larger than 2 terabytes NeilBrown
2004-11-02  3:37 ` [PATCH md 4 of 4] "Faulty" personality of md NeilBrown
2004-11-02  9:31   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree [this message]
2004-11-02 23:30     ` Neil Brown

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