From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262040AbUCQUDK (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:03:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262035AbUCQUC6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:02:58 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:47034 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262027AbUCQUCx (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:02:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4058AEDE.10305@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:02:38 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: "Justin T. Gibbs" , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Subject: Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review References: <459805408.1079547261@aslan.scsiguy.com> <4058A481.3020505@pobox.com> <20040317193206.A17987@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20040317193206.A17987@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> o Allow fully pluggable meta-data modules >> >>yep, needed > > > Well, this is pretty much the EVMS route we all heavily argued against. > Most of the metadata shouldn't be visible in the kernel at all. _some_ metadata is required at runtime, and must be in the kernel. I agree that a lot of configuration doesn't necessarily need to be in the kernel. But stuff like bad sector and event logs, and other bits are still needed at runtime. >>> o Improve the ability of MD to auto-configure arrays. >> >>hmmmm. Maybe in my language this means "improve ability for low-level >>drivers to communicate RAID support to upper layers"? > > > I think he's talking about the deprecated raid autorun feature. Again > something that is completely misplaced in the kernel. (ågain EVMS light) Indeed, but I'll let him and the code illuminate the meaning :) Jeff