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 19:54:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41687A2C.9000406@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb370e04100916441c1b74d@mail.gmail.com>
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 16:03:00 -0700 (PDT), Martins Krikis
> <mkrikis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>--- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I may sound like an ignorant but...
>>>
>>>Why can't device mapper be merged into 2.4 instead?
>>
>>"Instead" is the key word here... That would mean that
>>Boji's and my work has been largely in vain and that the
>>driver that to my best knowledge currently provides the
>>simplest (from a user's point of view) cooperation with
>>Intel RAID OROM and the most comlete feature-set regarding
>>Intel RAID metadata interpretation and updates would not
>>make it to the kernel. I have nothing against device mapper
>>being merged into 2.4 but I don't consider that a fair
>>reason for not considering iswraid.
>
>
> Well, in some way this speaks against merging iswraid in 2.4.
> If it provides "the most comlete feature-set regarding Intel RAID
> metadata interpretation and updates" then merging it would
> create regression when compared to 2.6, wouldn't it?
When the other RAIDs are ataraid in 2.4 and DM in 2.6, doing iswraid DM
in 2.4 violates the Principle of Least Surprise ;-)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-09 23:55 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
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 [this message]
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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