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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: "Lincoln Dale (ltd)" <ltd@cisco.com>
cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction
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>personally, I think this this useful functionality, but my personal
>preference is that this would be in DM/LVM2 rather than MD.  but given
>Neil is the MD author/maintainer, I can see why he'd prefer to do it in
>MD. :)

Why don't MD and DM merge some bits?



Jan Engelhardt
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