On 2004-11-02T14:37:45, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The 'faulty' personality provides a layer over any block device
> in which errors may be synthesised.
>
> A variety of errors are possible including transient and persistent
> read and write errors, and read errors that persist until the next
> write.
>
> There error mode can be changed on a live array.
Duplicates functionality already present with the device-mapper error
target, or functionality present with the (not yet merged) flakey dm
target.
I think we should strive for convergence, not for more duplication.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>
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High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
SUSE LINUX AG - A Novell company
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