On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:00:22AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > >o do we need to support partitions on RAID sets ? > > IMHO the answer is no, because dmpartx (or whatever it's called) can do > this today. It can use dm tables to slice up any existing block device, > whether it's a raw disk or a dm-constructed RAID set. Good, let's see if we get along w/o it. > > >Open questions: > >--------------- > > > >o do we need to prioritize on device-mapper targets for higher RAID levels > > (in particular we'ld need RAID5 to support some ATARAID formats) ? > > Personally I would be thrilled to see this work move ahead; in fact, I'd > be happy to see this dmraid tool support the Linux MD metadata so I can > use dm targets for my MD RAID-1 systems (thereby reducing the amount of > code I build into my kernel). Me too ;) In fact there's an MD metadata format handler template in my dmraid code base already. > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
