RE: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >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
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