On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 11:26:01AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2006-01-23T10:44:18, Heinz Mauelshagen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Besides, stacking between dm devices so far (ie, if I look how kpartx
> > > does it, or LVM2 on top of MPIO etc, which works just fine) is via the
> > > block device layer anyway - and nothing stops you from putting md on top
> > > of LVM2 LVs either.
> > >
> > > I use the regularly to play with md and other stuff...
> >
> > Me too but for production, I want to avoid the
> > additional stacking overhead and complexity.
>
> Ok, I still didn't get that. I must be slow.
>
> Did you implement some DM-internal stacking now to avoid the above
> mentioned complexity?
>
> Otherwise, even DM-on-DM is still stacked via the block device
> abstraction...
No, not necessary because a single-level raid4/5 mapping will do it.
Ie. it supports <offset> parameters in the constructor as other targets
do as well (eg. mirror or linear).
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Lars Marowsky-Brée
>
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