On Thursday January 19, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm currently of the opinion that dm needs a raid5 and raid6 module
> added, then the user land lvm tools fixed to use them, and then you
> could use dm instead of md. The benefit being that dm pushes things
> like volume autodetection and management out of the kernel to user space
> where it belongs. But that's just my opinion...
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.
NeilBrown
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