Re: Proposed enhancements to MD

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 17:13:15 EST



> Ideally in 2.6 one can use device mapper, but DM hasn't been
> incorporated into 2.4 stock, I know it's not in RHEL 3, and I don't
> believe it's included in SLES8. Can anyone share thoughts on if a DDF
> solution were built on top of DM, that DM could be included in 2.4
> stock, RHEL3, or SLES8? Otherwise, Adaptec will be stuck with two
> different solutions anyhow, one for 2.4 (they're proposing enhancing
> MD), and DM for 2.6.

Well it's either putting DM into 2.4 or forcing some sort of partitioned
MD into 2.4. My strong preference would be DM in that cases since it's
already in 2.6 and is actually designed for the
multiple-superblock-formats case.


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