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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Hello. Patch time (drivers/block/loop.c)
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:29:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011222012934.B7823@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011222031442.A25275@grokthis.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011222031442.A25275@grokthis.net>; from ericw@grokthis.net on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 03:14:42AM -0500

On Dec 22, 2001  03:14 -0500, Eric Windisch wrote:
> I may be looking at this and the multi-device drivers in the near
> future as I have a need for support for partitions on these devices;

Contact Neil Brown, as this is already done.  That is a "feature" of
Linux - most things you want to do have already been done by someone
else.

> I think it would be really neat if the software-raid could eventually
> become compatable with hardware raid.. although much slower

In many cases, software raid is as fast or faster than hardware raid.
What do you mean by "compatible"?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-22  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-22  8:14 Hello. Patch time (drivers/block/loop.c) Eric Windisch
2001-12-22  8:29 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-12-22  8:37   ` Eric Windisch
2001-12-22  8:51     ` Eric Windisch

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