From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [PATCH md 4 of 4] "Faulty" personality of md Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:31:41 +0100 Message-ID: <20041102093141.GH32712@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20041102143440.12019.patches@notabene> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2004-11-02T14:37:45, NeilBrown wrote: > The 'faulty' personality provides a layer over any block device > in which errors may be synthesised. >=20 > A variety of errors are possible including transient and persistent > read and write errors, and read errors that persist until the next > write. >=20 > 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-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html