Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S945378AbXHMNSu (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S970066AbXHMJDA (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:03:00 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:58657 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S971006AbXHMJCz (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:02:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:02:54 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: david@lang.hm cc: Paul Clements , Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFD] Layering: Use-Case Composers (was: DRBD - what is it, anyways? [compare with e.g. NBD + MD raid]) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200708121335.17267.a1426z@gawab.com> <20070812174549.GA2915@teal.hq.k1024.org> <46BFB6BB.80406@steeleye.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 757 Lines: 20 On Aug 12 2007 20:21, david@lang.hm wrote: > > per the message below MD (or DM) would need to be modified to work > reasonably well with one of the disk components being over an > unreliable link (like a network link) Does not dm-multipath do something like that? > are the MD/DM maintainers interested in extending their code in this direction? > or would they prefer to keep it simpler by being able to continue to assume > that the raid components are connected over a highly reliable connection? Jan -- - 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/