Re: Block layer still stack abuser?

From: Neil Brown
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 22:48:14 EST


On Thursday February 22, hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> > Might this:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/10/22
> >
> > relate to your question?
> > If you are talking about stacking block device (via dm or md), then a
> > patch to fix this in in -mm but there are or were some potential
> > issues in dm that seem to be holding it up.
>
> What are the current blocking issues? There are a lot of users of dm/md
> double-stacking (e.g. mirroring + multipath) that are in deep trouble
> currently and could be helped greatly with this patch.

All I know is what is in that mail message that I linked to.

NeilBrown
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