[dm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] dm raid45 target: export region hash functions and add a needed one

Heinz Mauelshagen heinzm at redhat.com
Tue Jun 16 14:51:46 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 10:09 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:21:05PM +0200, heinzm at redhat.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > this patch series introduces the raid45 target.
> > Please include upstream.
> 
> NACK, no need for another raid target, especially if it happens to be
> as broken as the raid1 one.

You didn't review it it seems ?

What are your particular pointers to any raid1 code issues ?
Please point to particular code of concern.

Mind you, that we've got clustered mirroring with it, which isn't
supported in MD.

>   Please help on making the md raid4/5 code
> more useful for your purposes (whatever that may be).

Supporting various ATARAID raid5 mappings via dmraid long before md got
external metadata suport added.

Heinz

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