Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday January 19, psusi@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm currently of the opinion that dm needs a raid5 and raid6 module 
> added, then the user land lvm tools fixed to use them, and then you 
> could use dm instead of md.  The benefit being that dm pushes things 
> like volume autodetection and management out of the kernel to user space 
> where it belongs.  But that's just my opinion...

The in-kernel autodetection in md is purely legacy support as far as I
am concerned.  md does volume detection in user space via 'mdadm'.

What other "things like" were you thinking of.

NeilBrown
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