On Tuesday November 2, lmb@xxxxxxx wrote: > 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. so this means you won't need to merge your "flakey" dm target?? (I couldn't find the "error' target after a quick look). > > I think we should strive for convergence, not for more duplication. Why? (genuine question) And if we should, why does dm support raid1 and multipath? (Actually I would be quite happy to discard the md/multipath code). I'm somewhat ambivalent about convergence, but if you think is it a good thing and want to work towards it, I'm open to co-operation. However, that doesn't involve saying "We've already done that" with (I think) an implication that what I had submitted therefore isn't wanted. Rather, it involves saying "how can we unite what we have" and making some practical suggestions. As I said, I'm open to suggestions, but it isn't something that I particularly want to push. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
