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From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Future of md multipath
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 13:49:56 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18863.15828.150450.275712@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Christoph Hellwig on Tuesday March 3

On Tuesday March 3, hch@lst.de wrote:
> Just noticed that we still have the old md-based multipath driver
> in the tree, which seem to not have gotten any attention since we
> got dm multipath.
> 
> Is there any reason to keep it or should we deprecate it and kill
> it after a couple of kernel releases?

I'm in favour of deprecating it.  Whenever I hear of people using it I
suggest dm-multipath, but there could people I don't here about.
I think the upcoming mdadm-3.0 will need a compile-time option to
enable multipath, so people will only get it if they really really
want it.

So feel free to propose patches.

Thanks :-)

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-05  2:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 18:04 Future of md multipath Christoph Hellwig
2009-03-05  2:49 ` Neil Brown [this message]
2009-03-05 13:00   ` martin f krafft
2009-03-06  5:32     ` Neil Brown
2009-03-06 15:17       ` martin f krafft
     [not found] <cbHe8-JR-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <ccbYG-sd-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <ccluS-7IV-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2009-03-07 20:08     ` Bodo Eggert

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