Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2006-01-23T10:44:18, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx> 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...


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée

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