Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:32:51 +1100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction |
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On Thursday January 19, psusi@cfl.rr.com wrote: > I'm currently of the opinion that dm needs a raid5 and raid6 module > added, then the user land lvm tools fixed to use them, and then you > could use dm instead of md. The benefit being that dm pushes things > like volume autodetection and management out of the kernel to user space > where it belongs. But that's just my opinion...
The in-kernel autodetection in md is purely legacy support as far as I am concerned. md does volume detection in user space via 'mdadm'.
What other "things like" were you thinking of.
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