Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:44:24 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Block layer still stack abuser? |
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On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Might this: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22 > > relate to your question? > If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a > patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential > issues in dm that seem to be holding it up.
What are the current blocking issues? There are a lot of users of dm/md double-stacking (e.g. mirroring + multipath) that are in deep trouble currently and could be helped greatly with this patch. - 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/
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