Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263590AbUCUCXK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:23:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263591AbUCUCXK (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:23:10 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:30081 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263590AbUCUCXI (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:23:08 -0500 Message-ID: <405CFC85.70004@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:23:01 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back To Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Wilfried Weissmann , Device mapper devel list , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets? References: <405C8B39.8080609@gmx.net> <405CAEC7.9080104@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <405CAEC7.9080104@pobox.com> 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: 682 Lines: 15 Jeff Garzik wrote: > So go ahead, and I'll lend you as much help as I can. I have the full > Promise RAID docs, and it seems like another guy on the lists has full > Silicon Image "medley" RAID docs... If these "soft" RAID implementations only support RAID-0/1/0+1/1+0, is there really any need for a new DM target? Wouldn't you just need a userspace tool to recognize the array and do the "dmsetup" operations to make it usable? - 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/