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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
    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.

    NeilBrown
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