Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes:
> On Monday June 8, carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >If so, would ext2 probably be the best choice?
>>
>> That's what the man page says. I find it strange since if it's a file
>> the filesystem shouldn't matter. Neil?
>
> The way that md writes to the bitmap file is not entirely portable
> across different filesystems. As the man page say, it is known to
> work for ext2 and ext3. Either is a fine choice.
> A new filesystem interface is being introduced in 2.6.31 as part of
> the swap-over-NFS work. I might end up using that to write to bitmap
> files, as it has the right characteristics. But that is very much in
> the future.
>
> NeilBrown
How about support to write to a device instead of a file?
MfG
Goswin
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