Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:22:18 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction |
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On 2006-01-19T21:12:02, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
> > Use md for raid1, raid5, raid6 - anything with redundancy. > > Use dm for multipath, crypto, linear, LVM, snapshot > There are pairs of files that look like they would do the same thing: > > raid1.c <-> dm-raid1.c > linear.c <-> dm-linear.c
Sure there's some historical overlap. It'd make sense if DM used the md raid personalities, yes.
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée
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