From: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:19:28 -0600
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       Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
       "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday 25 March 2004 4:04 pm, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2004-03-25T13:42:12,
>
>    Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said:
> > >and -5). And we've talked for a long time about wanting to port RAID-1
> > > and RAID-5 (and now RAID-6) to Device-Mapper targets, but we haven't
> > > started on any such work, or even had any significant discussions about
> > > *how* to do it. I can't
> >
> > let's have that discussion :)
>
> Nice 2.7 material, and parts I've always wanted to work on. (Including
> making the entire partition scanning user-space on top of DM too.)

Couldn't agree more. Whether using EVMS or kpartx or some other tool, I think 
we've already proved this is possible. We really only need to work on making 
early-userspace a little easier to use.

> KS material?

Sounds good to me.

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Kevin Corry
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