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From: Reuben Farrelly <reuben-lkml@reub.net>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:51:13 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43D09671.3010405@reub.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17360.5011.975665.371008@cse.unsw.edu.au>

On 20/01/2006 11:32 a.m., Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday January 19, psusi@cfl.rr.com wrote:
>> I'm currently of the opinion that dm needs a raid5 and raid6 module 
>> added, then the user land lvm tools fixed to use them, and then you 
>> could use dm instead of md.  The benefit being that dm pushes things 
>> like volume autodetection and management out of the kernel to user space 
>> where it belongs.  But that's just my opinion...
> 
> The in-kernel autodetection in md is purely legacy support as far as I
> am concerned.  md does volume detection in user space via 'mdadm'.

Hrm.  <puzzled look>   How would I then start my md0 raid-1 array that is 
mounted as the root partition / if I'm not doing this when the kernel is 
starting up?  Because without it I've got no userspace to actually execute.

Some of the other arrays with things like /var and /home could obviously be 
easily assembled soon after the kernel hands over control to userspace before 
the filesystem points are mounted, but for the root I am not quite sure how it 
could work...

reuben

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-20  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-17 21:38 [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Lincoln Dale (ltd)
2006-01-18 13:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-18 23:19   ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 15:33     ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-19 20:12     ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-19 21:22       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-19 22:17     ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 22:32       ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19 23:26         ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-19 23:43           ` Neil Brown
2006-01-20  2:17             ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20 10:53               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-20 12:06                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-20 18:38                 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:09                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21  0:06                     ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 18:41               ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 17:29             ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-20 18:36             ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-20 22:57               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21  0:01                 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21  0:03                   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-21  0:08                     ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-21  0:13                       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23  9:44                         ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:26                           ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 10:38                             ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 10:45                               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2006-01-23 11:00                                 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 12:54                           ` Ville Herva
2006-01-23 13:00                             ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-01-23 13:54                             ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2006-01-23 17:33                               ` Ville Herva
2006-01-24  2:02                             ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-20  7:51         ` Reuben Farrelly [this message]
2006-01-20  3:43           ` Andre' Breiler
2006-01-21  0:42             ` David Greaves
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-17  6:56 NeilBrown
2006-01-17  8:17 ` Michael Tokarev
     [not found]   ` <fd8d0180601170121s1e6a55b7o@mail.gmail.com>
2006-01-17  9:38     ` Francois Barre
2006-01-19  0:35       ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17  9:50   ` Sander
2006-01-17 11:26     ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-17 11:37       ` Francois Barre
2006-01-17 14:03       ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-19  0:28         ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 16:08       ` Ross Vandegrift
2006-01-17 18:12         ` Michael Tokarev
2006-01-18  8:14           ` Sander
2006-01-18  8:37             ` Brad Campbell
2006-01-18  9:03             ` Alan Cox
2006-01-18 12:46             ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-18 12:51               ` Gordon Henderson
2006-01-18 23:51                 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19  7:20                   ` PFC
2006-01-19  8:01                     ` dean gaudet
2006-01-18 23:54               ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19  0:22           ` Neil Brown
2006-01-19  9:01             ` Jakob Oestergaard
2006-01-17 22:38       ` Phillip Susi
2006-01-17 22:57         ` Neil Brown
2006-01-17 14:10   ` Steinar H. Gunderson
2006-01-17 15:07 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-01-19  0:23   ` Neil Brown
2006-01-22  4:42 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-22 22:52   ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23 23:02     ` Adam Kropelin
2006-01-23  1:08 ` John Hendrikx
2006-01-23  1:25   ` Neil Brown
2006-01-23  1:54     ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-23  2:09     ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2006-01-23  2:33       ` Neil Brown

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