From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161435AbWASVXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:23:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161434AbWASVXX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:23:23 -0500 Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158]:55721 "EHLO mx.in-addr.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161432AbWASVXW (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:23:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:22:18 +0100 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree To: Jan Engelhardt , Neil Brown Cc: "Lincoln Dale (ltd)" , Michael Tokarev , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Steinar H. Gunderson" Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction Message-ID: <20060119212218.GK22163@marowsky-bree.de> References: <26A66BC731DAB741837AF6B2E29C1017D47EA0@xmb-hkg-413.apac.cisco.com> <17358.52476.290687.858954@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Ctuhulu: HASTUR User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 2006-01-19T21:12:02, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Use md for raid1, raid5, raid6 - anything with redundancy. > > Use dm for multipath, crypto, linear, LVM, snapshot > There are pairs of files that look like they would do the same thing: > > raid1.c <-> dm-raid1.c > linear.c <-> dm-linear.c Sure there's some historical overlap. It'd make sense if DM used the md raid personalities, yes. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"