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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:00:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> DM is small and clean. It may well be that if we go the DM way (and I
> think we should) that those bits of EVMS that we want (like cluster)
> actually come out a lot cleaner than in EVMS itself

DM is small and clean because it's severely lacking in functionality.
Last I checked it couldn't do RAID 5 or r/w snapshots without
completely bypassing its core infrastructure (since you're no longer
just doing simple block remapping at that point), and once you add all
that stuff, it's likely to become much more complex.

							- Ted