[dm-devel] Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets?

["Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:

> So go ahead, and I'll lend you as much help as I can.  I have the full 
> Promise RAID docs, and it seems like another guy on the lists has full 
> Silicon Image "medley" RAID docs...

If these "soft" RAID implementations only support RAID-0/1/0+1/1+0, is 
there really any need for a new DM target? Wouldn't you just need a 
userspace tool to recognize the array and do the "dmsetup" operations to 
make it usable?