From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com
Subject: Re: [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:36:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <416875ED.6090503@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e0410091622423bded0@mail.gmail.com>
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:07:29 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>>>I may sound like an ignorant but...
>>>
>>>Why can't device mapper be merged into 2.4 instead?
>>>Is there something wrong with 2.4 device mapper patch?
>>>
>>>It would more convenient (same driver for 2.4 and 2.6)
>>>and would benefit users of other software RAIDs
>>>(easier transition to 2.6).
>>
>>OTOH, that would be introducing a brand new RAID/LVM subsystem in the
>>middle of a stable series...
>
>
> Quoting Marcelo:
>
>
>>New drivers are OK, as long as they dont break existing setups,
>>and if substantial amount of users will benefit from it.
>
>
> IMHO both conditions are fulfilled.
Note I said "subsystem", Marcelo said "driver". I don't object to
adding DM to 2.4.x, but I think it's a rather large addition with
consequences WRT LVM1 versus LVM2, and perhaps other issues as well.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-09 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-10-09 20:44 ` [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3 Martins Krikis
2004-10-09 21:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-09 22:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-09 23:22 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-09 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-09 23:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-11 11:19 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-10-12 14:56 ` Martins Krikis
2005-01-18 17:28 ` iswraid and 2.4.x? Martins Krikis
2005-01-18 15:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-18 18:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-18 15:13 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-01-18 18:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-18 19:56 ` Martins Krikis
2005-01-18 20:55 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-18 21:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-18 21:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-01-18 21:59 ` Martins Krikis
2004-10-09 23:03 ` [Announce] "iswraid" (ICH5R/ICH6R ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.28-pre3 Martins Krikis
2004-10-09 23:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-09 23:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-10 1:00 ` Martins Krikis
2004-10-10 2:06 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-10-10 2:40 ` Martins Krikis
2004-10-10 18:19 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <bc8bcc5104100918206842d6d3@mail.gmail.com>
2004-10-10 2:08 ` Martins Krikis
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