[dm-devel] Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets?

[Jeff Garzik]

Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> So go ahead, and I'll lend you as much help as I can.  I have the full 
>> Promise RAID docs, and it seems like another guy on the lists has full 
>> Silicon Image "medley" RAID docs...
> 
> 
> If these "soft" RAID implementations only support RAID-0/1/0+1/1+0, is 
> there really any need for a new DM target? Wouldn't you just need a 
> userspace tool to recognize the array and do the "dmsetup" operations to 
> make it usable?


Ideally yes.  I don't see an in-tree RAID1 dm target though....

	Jeff