Am Montag, den 01.09.2008, 21:35 +0300 schrieb Antti Mäkelä: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, den 31.08.2008, 20:46 +0300 schrieb Antti Mäkelä: > >> Hi, > > > > Hello. > > > > ASAP ;-) > > We're settling the Intel contributions to allow for set create, remove, > > rebuild and device failure event handling aiming fro F10 and RHEL5.3. > > What about the kernel-specific stuff - does dmraid still require it's > own module or can it use the raid456 from main tree? (I'm running with > Gentoo's kernel with your patch added in). It needs the dm-raid45 target, which we're aiming to upstream shortly. > > My understanding has so far been than all that dmraid really does is > some device-mapper magic that the kernel can use it's normal software raid > functionalities on fakeraid arrays - eg. it just bootstraps the standard > kernel drivers - raid45 has been a special case since even Linux's own > software raid added support only recently. Or what's the deal? It uses device-mapper to activate the respective mappings in the kernel for discovered ATARAID+DDF1 mappings. > > (At least the fact that I've run into some patches for dmraid that make > it use raid456 instead suggest this...) See above. We're using our device mapper RAID5 target. Heinz > > Anyway, thanks for answers. > _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
