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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] dm-raid45
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:43:09 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:38:06PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Where did the investigation of reusing md/raid5.c [1] end up?  This
> would simultaneously enable hardware accelerated raid6 for dmraid.

Yes, adding different raid code to dm is a bad idea, even more so after
Neil showed a useful prototype of reusing the md code.