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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dm core patches
Date: 16 Feb 2004 12:04:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076951077.2419.67.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040216165756.GB18938@suse.de>

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:57, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Nope, this looks pretty spot-on to me. I have to agree with Lars and
> rather keep it simple and straight forward, than introduce shady
> informational bits.

OK, I pretty much agree, that's why I labelled the informational piece
as "possibly".

About the only use I can see for it is predictive failure, which was all
the rage a while ago, but seems to have quieted down somewhat.  I agree
certainly that predictive failure is far more useful to RAID than
multi-path.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-13 16:44 dm core patches James Bottomley
2004-02-16  8:22 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-16 16:57 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-16 17:04   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-02-19  0:26 ` Mike Christie
2004-02-19  3:40   ` Jeff Garzik
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-10 16:35 Joe Thornber
2004-02-11 10:16 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-11 10:35   ` Joe Thornber
2004-02-12 18:51     ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-12 20:13       ` Joe Thornber
2004-02-13 15:12         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-13 15:39           ` Joe Thornber
2004-02-13 16:08             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-16  8:19               ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2004-02-16  9:35                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-02-13 23:46             ` Mike Anderson
2004-02-16 12:17             ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2004-02-13 16:03           ` Jens Axboe

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