Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | 06 Nov 2002 14:59:08 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 14:55, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:16, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > > Now, an interesting question is whether the md modules etc will simply be > > continued to be used or whether they'll make use of the DM engine too? Can > > they be made "plugins" to DM or the EVMS framework? Or even, could EVMS (in > > theory) parse the meta-data from a legacy md device and just setup a DM > > mapping for it? That would appeal to me quite a bit. I really need to start > > reading up on it... > > I'm certainly hoping to kill off ataraid/pdcraid/hptraid by using device > mapper and md
absolutely. The biggest issue with this is that DM needs to be able to handle chunks where 1 page is split across 2 strides on disk... if/once DM (and BIO) can deal with that the rest isn't hard...
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