From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:57:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20060120225724.GW22163@marowsky-bree.de> References: <26A66BC731DAB741837AF6B2E29C1017D47EA0@xmb-hkg-413.apac.cisco.com> <17358.52476.290687.858954@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43D00FFA.1040401@cfl.rr.com> <17360.5011.975665.371008@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43D02033.4070008@cfl.rr.com> <17360.9233.215291.380922@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060120183621.GA2799@redhat.com> 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: <20060120183621.GA2799@redhat.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Heinz Mauelshagen , Neil Brown Cc: Phillip Susi , Jan Engelhardt , "Lincoln Dale (ltd)" , Michael Tokarev , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Steinar H. Gunderson" List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 2006-01-20T19:36:21, Heinz Mauelshagen wrot= e: > > Then 'dmraid' (or a similar tool) can use 'dm' interfaces for some > > raid levels and 'md' interfaces for others. > Yes, that's possible but there's recommendations to have a native tar= get > for dm to do RAID5, so I started to implement it. Can you answer me what the recommendations are based on? I understand wanting to manage both via the same framework, but duplicating the code is just ... wrong. What's gained by it? Why not provide a dm-md wrapper which could then load/interface to all md personalities? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - 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