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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:06:28 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
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On Fri, Jan 20 2006, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> Oversimplifying to "dm is better than md" is just stupid.

Indeed. But "generally" md is faster and more efficient in the way it
handles ios, it doesn't do any splitting unless it has to.

-- 
Jens Axboe