Hi Jonathan, On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 10:12:36AM -0600, Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would you consider working on the recently added dm-raid.c? It is an > attempt to access the MD personalities through device-mapper. As > such, RAID456 (the initial drop) will be available - in addition to > RAID1. There is much to be done in this area - large projects as well > as small - encompassing performance issues, metadata layout, testing, > etc... There is also a lot of attention being paid to this area. > > I think device-mapper mirroring will be used for a while, but it will > likely become deprecated. Sure, that sounds interesting. The first part of my MSc thesis should be done till 2011.05.13 (14 weeks), I have about 2 workdays / week for the project. Of course the actual development time is a bit less, since I have to produce paper from this (about 30 pages for the first part). (The second part should be done in Q3-Q4, when I'll have a bit more dedicated time.) Do you have a project idea for such a timeframe? My mentors are asked: is dm-raid supported in a RHEL version? As far as I see it was added in commit 9d09e663d5502c46f2d9481c04c1087e1c2da698 after 2.6.37, so it's not part of RHEL (I created my dm-mirror patches on RHEL5) - and it's a pro for them if I can do my development based on a RHEL kernel, what they use. So - given such a timeframe, is it better to develop dm-mirror, which is fairly stable or is it possible to develop dm-raid, even if it's quite new? Thanks, Miklos -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
