Hi Christoph, On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 6:10 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 09:08:04AM -0800, Song Liu wrote: > > Thanks for the heads-up. I honestly don't know about this use case. > > Where can I find/get more information about it? > > What NAS uses md linear? No idea, I was just wondering.... Lots of NASes sold support JBOD (yes, I know I should not use anything that lacks mirroring for data I care about ;-) > Either way you can always set up a dm-linear table to get at the > data. If dm-linear offers the same functionality, I have no objection. Note to self: learn about the difference between dm and md, finally... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds