Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750878AbWATMEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:04:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750876AbWATMEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:04:51 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:32520 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbWATMEv (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:04:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:06:28 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Lars Marowsky-Bree Cc: Phillip Susi , Neil Brown , Jan Engelhardt , "Lincoln Dale (ltd)" , Michael Tokarev , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Message-ID: <20060120120627.GF13429@suse.de> References: <26A66BC731DAB741837AF6B2E29C1017D47EA0@xmb-hkg-413.apac.cisco.com> <17358.52476.290687.858954@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43D00FFA.1040401@cfl.rr.com> <17360.5011.975665.371008@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43D02033.4070008@cfl.rr.com> <17360.9233.215291.380922@cse.unsw.edu.au> <43D04828.8010107@cfl.rr.com> <20060120105306.GY22163@marowsky-bree.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060120105306.GY22163@marowsky-bree.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 498 Lines: 14 On Fri, Jan 20 2006, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > Oversimplifying to "dm is better than md" is just stupid. Indeed. But "generally" md is faster and more efficient in the way it handles ios, it doesn't do any splitting unless it has to. -- Jens Axboe - 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/