From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.x Linux Medley RAID Version 7
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:56:56 -0500
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To: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> MD already has support for more than one type of superblock. I think
> if you just add medley (or intel, or ..) support to MD you're all set.

Indeed.  Further, we have the new vendor-neutral RAID metadata format, 
"DDF", looming on the very near horizon.

I want to avoid having NN duplicated RAID0/1/5 engines, like ataraid in 
2.4 was threatening to be.

	Jeff