From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:32:51 +1100
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       "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
In-Reply-To: message from Phillip Susi on Thursday January 19
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On Thursday January 19, psusi@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> I'm currently of the opinion that dm needs a raid5 and raid6 module 
> added, then the user land lvm tools fixed to use them, and then you 
> could use dm instead of md.  The benefit being that dm pushes things 
> like volume autodetection and management out of the kernel to user space 
> where it belongs.  But that's just my opinion...

The in-kernel autodetection in md is purely legacy support as far as I
am concerned.  md does volume detection in user space via 'mdadm'.

What other "things like" were you thinking of.

NeilBrown
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