On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:26 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:56 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > >> As for integrating the two code bases.... people have been suggesting > >> that for years, but I suspect few of them have looked deeply at the > >> practicalities. Apparently it was suggested at the recent "storage > >> summit". However as the primary md and dm developers were absent, I > >> have doubts about how truly well-informed that conversation could have > >> been. > > > > Agreed, we'd need face-time and talk issues through in order to come up > > with any such plan for md+dm integration. > > > > What are your general impressions of dmraid using md kernel > infrastructure for raid level support? At the time of the dmraid project start, we already had libdevmapper which was suitable to handle in-kernel device manipulation with no adequate on the MD side so it was the appropriate interface to use. Cheers, Heinz > > Thanks, > Dan -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
