>> >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?
>
>Which bits?
>Why?
>
>My current opinion is that you should:
>
> 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
Jan Engelhardt
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