Ataraid-list Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[Fang, Ying]

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>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:27:27 -0500
>From: Andres Tello Abrego <criptos at aullox.com>
>Subject: Dmraid "fakeraid" instructional question.
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>Hi, does the hardware configures with the dmraid, is a real hardware
>raid, or is a software raid without any difference that the native md
>raid of linux?
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>As far I know. dmraid creates a mapping to the unexposed raid drive to
a
>dev entry at the /Dev/mapper system...a and nothing else.
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>Were can I read a little more about what and how dev mapper works?
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>TIA.

Hi,

I haven't found a good paper talking about the devise mapper design in
English but in Chinese, the best article I found two days ago is at
http://linux.ccidnet.com/art/302/20060929/913647_1.html

Ying