On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:43:13AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > dm and md are just two different interface styles to various bits of > this. Neither is clearly better than the other, partly because > different people have different tastes. Here's why it's great to have both: they have different toolkits. I'm really familiar with md's toolkit. I can do most anything I need. But I'll bet that I've never gotten a pvmove to finish sucessfully because I am doing something wrong and I don't know it. Becuase we're talking about data integrity, the toolkit issue alone makes it worth keeping both code paths. md does 90% of what I need, so why should I spend the time to learn a new system that doesn't offer any advantages? [1] I'm intentionally neglecting the 4k stack issue -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - 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
