Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:45:22 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction |
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On 2006-01-23T11:38:51, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I still didn't get that. I must be slow. > > > > Did you implement some DM-internal stacking now to avoid the above > > mentioned complexity? > > > > Otherwise, even DM-on-DM is still stacked via the block device > > abstraction... > > No, not necessary because a single-level raid4/5 mapping will do it. > Ie. it supports <offset> parameters in the constructor as other targets > do as well (eg. mirror or linear).
An dm-md wrapper would not support such a basic feature (which is easily added to md too) how?
I mean, "I'm rewriting it because I want to and because I understand and own the code then" is a perfectly legitimate reason, but let's please not pretend there's really sound and good technical reasons ;-)
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée
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