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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend)
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On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 05:24, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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.

Last time I checked we already had a perfectly good md driver for the
raid5 handling