On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:43:13AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday January 19, [email protected] wrote:
> > Neil Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > The in-kernel autodetection in md is purely legacy support as far as I
> > > am concerned. md does volume detection in user space via 'mdadm'.
> > >
> > > What other "things like" were you thinking of.
> > >
> >
> > Oh, I suppose that's true. Well, another thing is your new mods to
> > support on the fly reshaping, which dm could do from user space. Then
> > of course, there's multipath and snapshots and other lvm things which
> > you need dm for, so why use both when one will do? That's my take on it.
>
> Maybe the problem here is thinking of md and dm as different things.
> Try just not thinking of them at all.
> Think about it like this:
> The linux kernel support lvm
> The linux kernel support multipath
> The linux kernel support snapshots
> The linux kernel support raid0
> The linux kernel support raid1
> The linux kernel support raid5
>
> Use the bits that you want, and not the bits that you don't.
>
> dm and md are just two different interface styles to various bits of
> this. Neither is clearly better than the other, partly because
> different people have different tastes.
>
> Maybe what you really want is for all of these functions to be managed
> under the one umbrella application. I think that is was EVMS tried to
> do.
>
> One big selling point that 'dm' has is 'dmraid' - a tool that allows
> you to use a lot of 'fakeraid' cards. People would like dmraid to
> work with raid5 as well, and that is a good goal.
> However it doesn't mean that dm needs to get it's own raid5
> implementation or that md/raid5 needs to be merged with dm.
That's a valid point to make but it can ;)
> It can be achieved by giving md/raid5 the right interfaces so that
> metadata can be managed from userspace (and I am nearly there).
Yeah, and I'm nearly there to have a RAID4 and RAID5 target for dm
(which took advantage of the raid address calculation and the bio to
stripe cache copy code of md raid5).
See http://people.redhat.com/heinzm/sw/dm/dm-raid45/dm-raid45_2.6.15_200601201914.patch.bz2 (no Makefile / no Kconfig changes) for early code reference.
> Then 'dmraid' (or a similar tool) can use 'dm' interfaces for some
> raid levels and 'md' interfaces for others.
Yes, that's possible but there's recommendations to have a native target
for dm to do RAID5, so I started to implement it.
>
> NeilBrown
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