Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:07:54 -0800
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lmb@suse.de, jgarzik@pobox.com,
       neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au, gibbs@scsiguy.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:19:28 -0600 Kevin Corry wrote:

| 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.

Ditto.

I didn't see much conclusion to this thread, other than Neil's
good suggestions.  (maybe on some other list that I don't read?)

I wouldn't want this or any other projects to have to wait for the
kernel summit.  Email has worked well for many years...let's
try to keep it working.  :)

--
~Randy
"You can't do anything without having to do something else first."
-- Belefant's Law
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