Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262831AbUCJU5o (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:57:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262821AbUCJU5o (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:57:44 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:424 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262820AbUCJU5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:57:09 -0500 Message-ID: <404F8118.1060203@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:56:56 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miquel van Smoorenburg CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.x Linux Medley RAID Version 7 References: <200403101707.38595.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 19 Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > MD already has support for more than one type of superblock. I think > if you just add medley (or intel, or ..) support to MD you're all set. Indeed. Further, we have the new vendor-neutral RAID metadata format, "DDF", looming on the very near horizon. I want to avoid having NN duplicated RAID0/1/5 engines, like ataraid in 2.4 was threatening to be. Jeff - 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/