Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750851AbWAUAE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:04:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750824AbWAUAE1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:04:27 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:57998 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750822AbWAUAE0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:04:26 -0500 Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:03:44 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Heinz Mauelshagen Cc: Neil Brown , Phillip Susi , 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: <20060121000344.GY22163@marowsky-bree.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> <20060120183621.GA2799@redhat.com> <20060120225724.GW22163@marowsky-bree.de> <20060121000142.GR2801@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060121000142.GR2801@redhat.com> X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 25 On 2006-01-21T01:01:42, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > Why not provide a dm-md wrapper which could then > > load/interface to all md personalities? > As we want to enrich the mapping flexibility (ie, multi-segment fine grained > mappings) of dm by adding targets as we go, a certain degree and transitional > existence of duplicate code is the price to gain that flexibility. A dm-md wrapper would give you the same? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - 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/