Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265788AbUAMWLQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:11:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265784AbUAMWLP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:11:15 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:9345 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265783AbUAMWLI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2004 17:11:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Proposed enhancements to MD From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Matt Domsch Cc: Jeff Garzik , Scott Long , Linux Kernel , linux-raid , Neil Brown In-Reply-To: <20040113134107.A7646@lists.us.dell.com> References: <40033D02.8000207@adaptec.com> <40043C75.6040100@pobox.com> <20040113134107.A7646@lists.us.dell.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-CSPhqZAP0rRo10gdZEWm" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1074031848.4981.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:10:49 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 39 --=-CSPhqZAP0rRo10gdZEWm Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Ideally in 2.6 one can use device mapper, but DM hasn't been > incorporated into 2.4 stock, I know it's not in RHEL 3, and I don't > believe it's included in SLES8. Can anyone share thoughts on if a DDF > solution were built on top of DM, that DM could be included in 2.4 > stock, RHEL3, or SLES8? Otherwise, Adaptec will be stuck with two > different solutions anyhow, one for 2.4 (they're proposing enhancing > MD), and DM for 2.6. Well it's either putting DM into 2.4 or forcing some sort of partitioned MD into 2.4. My strong preference would be DM in that cases since it's already in 2.6 and is actually designed for the multiple-superblock-formats case. --=-CSPhqZAP0rRo10gdZEWm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBABGzoxULwo51rQBIRAvB3AJ975gLeupCNmZHRCDZ41DylR+7cWgCgn5/9 5lsgj7bmuCMG+c5VuTD5aC8= =Q7RG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-CSPhqZAP0rRo10gdZEWm-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/