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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:06:28 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 20 2006, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Oversimplifying to "dm is better than md" is just stupid.

Indeed. But "generally" md is faster and more efficient in the way it
handles ios, it doesn't do any splitting unless it has to.

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Jens Axboe