Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review

From: Kevin Corry
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 14:22:04 EST


On Thursday 25 March 2004 4:04 pm, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2004-03-25T13:42:12,
>
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> > >and -5). And we've talked for a long time about wanting to port RAID-1
> > > and RAID-5 (and now RAID-6) to Device-Mapper targets, but we haven't
> > > started on any such work, or even had any significant discussions about
> > > *how* to do it. I can't
> >
> > let's have that discussion :)
>
> Nice 2.7 material, and parts I've always wanted to work on. (Including
> making the entire partition scanning user-space on top of DM too.)

Couldn't agree more. Whether using EVMS or kpartx or some other tool, I think
we've already proved this is possible. We really only need to work on making
early-userspace a little easier to use.

> KS material?

Sounds good to me.

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