Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Mar 2004 19:32:06 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review |
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > o Allow fully pluggable meta-data modules > > yep, needed
Well, this is pretty much the EVMS route we all heavily argued against. Most of the metadata shouldn't be visible in the kernel at all.
> > o Improve the ability of MD to auto-configure arrays. > > hmmmm. Maybe in my language this means "improve ability for low-level > drivers to communicate RAID support to upper layers"?
I think he's talking about the deprecated raid autorun feature. Again something that is completely misplaced in the kernel. (ågain EVMS light)
> > o Support multi-level arrays transparently yet allow > > proper event notification across levels when the > > topology is known to MD. > > I'll need to see the code to understand what this means, much less > whether it is needed ;-)
I think he mean the broken inter-driver raid stacking mentioned below. Why do I have to thing of EVMS when for each feature?..
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