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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does md(adm) work with fake-raid ?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:10:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EC15FF.1070809@arcor.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC9WiBhBEjcWFkX5g_hBfAMjs_cD5iK1MTn=w=MdXRBykY+rAg@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/21/2013 03:41 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de> wrote:
>>> Yes, but my question is about how md cooperate with the BIOS in this case ?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. When Linux runs, with or without MD, no BIOS
>> code is ever executed.
> 
> Ok I think I'm missing something more fundamental here.
> 
> For exemple when writing to the disk, each write goes into the 2 disks
> in case of RAID1. When Linux runs, is it either DM or MD (and
> necessarily one of them) that does this work ?

Yes.

> For windows case, does it relies on a driver that is provided by the
> RAID manufacturer ?

Exactly.

Regards
Martin

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-21 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-18 20:37 How does md(adm) work with fake-raid ? Francis Moreau
2013-07-18 22:03 ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-18 23:35   ` Dmitrijs Ledkovs
2013-07-19 15:58     ` Jiang, Dave
2013-07-19 18:58     ` Martin Wilck
     [not found] ` <51E85949.2020107@gmail.com>
2013-07-19  7:02   ` Francis Moreau
     [not found] ` <51E86613.9050505@arcor.de>
2013-07-19  7:08   ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-19 18:52     ` Martin Wilck
2013-07-21 13:41       ` Francis Moreau
2013-07-21 17:10         ` Martin Wilck [this message]

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