On Fri, Jul 11 2014 at 5:56pm -0400, John Utz <John.Utz@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mike > > tnx so much for the prompt response! > > sorry i wasnt clear enuf, example of the 'personality code' that i was > writing about below. ... > FOR EXAMPLE, here is a little bit of linear.c that contains it: > > static struct md_personality linear_personality = > { > .name = "linear", > .level = LEVEL_LINEAR, > .owner = THIS_MODULE, > .make_request = linear_make_request, > .run = linear_run, > .stop = linear_stop, > .status = linear_status, > .hot_add_disk = linear_add, > .size = linear_size, > }; > > static int __init linear_init (void) > { > return register_md_personality (&linear_personality); > } > > static void linear_exit (void) > { > unregister_md_personality (&linear_personality); > } The above is MD raid code. So what you're talking about are the different MD raid personalities. > > so, based on this speculation, i *think* i should be using the target > > construct for the new device mapper module that i am currently > > coding. > > > > am i correct? > > Probably. The target construct is provided by DM. You haven;t said what you're looking to do but if it is remapping IO and has nothing to do with raid then you'd probably want to develop a new DM target. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel