On 2006-01-19T21:12:02, Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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
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