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Subject: Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:16, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Now, an interesting question is whether the md modules etc will simply be
> continued to be used or whether they'll make use of the DM engine too? Can
> they be made "plugins" to DM or the EVMS framework? Or even, could EVMS (in
> theory) parse the meta-data from a legacy md device and just setup a DM
> mapping for it? That would appeal to me quite a bit. I really need to start
> reading up on it...

I'm certainly hoping to kill off ataraid/pdcraid/hptraid by using device
mapper and md

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