Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MD
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com
To: Scott Long <scott_long@adaptec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 01:34, Scott Long wrote:
> All,
>=20
> Adaptec has been looking at the MD driver for a foundation for their
> Open-Source software RAID stack.

Hi,

Is there a (good) reason you didn't use Device Mapper for this? It
really sounds like Device Mapper is the way to go to parse and use
raid-like formats to the kernel, since it's designed to be independent
of on disk formats, unlike MD.

Greetings,
    Arjan van de Ven

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