>> >personally, I think this this useful functionality, but my personal >> >preference is that this would be in DM/LVM2 rather than MD. but given >> >Neil is the MD author/maintainer, I can see why he'd prefer to do it in >> >MD. :) >> >> Why don't MD and DM merge some bits? > >Which bits? >Why? > >My current opinion is that you should: > > Use md for raid1, raid5, raid6 - anything with redundancy. > Use dm for multipath, crypto, linear, LVM, snapshot There are pairs of files that look like they would do the same thing: raid1.c <-> dm-raid1.c linear.c <-> dm-linear.c Jan Engelhardt -- - 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
