Ar Maw, 2006-07-04 am 09:31 +1000, ysgrifennodd Neil Brown:
> It's been some years that I've felt that most 'logical volume
> management' really belongs in the filesystem.
> Why have a dm that chops devices up in to segments and assembles them to
> look like a big device, only to have that big device chopped up and
> presented as files. Seems like double handling to me.
Because the interface model is wrong ?
Various people have long said the model actually should look rather more
like
fs to block:
handle = alloc_extent(near_handle*, info)
write_extent(handle, buffer, offset, length)
read_extent(handle, buffer, offset, length)
free_extent(handle)
(probably with resize_extent)
This makes LVM, remapping, checksumming and the like all naturally slip
out of the fs but not into the block layer.
[Many very good points snipped]
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