Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 	o Allow fully pluggable meta-data modules
> 
> yep, needed

Well, this is pretty much the EVMS route we all heavily argued against.
Most of the metadata shouldn't be visible in the kernel at all.

> > 	o Improve the ability of MD to auto-configure arrays.
> 
> hmmmm.  Maybe in my language this means "improve ability for low-level 
> drivers to communicate RAID support to upper layers"?

I think he's talking about the deprecated raid autorun feature.  Again
something that is completely misplaced in the kernel.  (ågain EVMS light)

> > 	o Support multi-level arrays transparently yet allow
> > 	  proper event notification across levels when the
> > 	  topology is known to MD.
> 
> I'll need to see the code to understand what this means, much less 
> whether it is needed ;-)

I think he mean the broken inter-driver raid stacking mentioned below.
Why do I have to thing of EVMS when for each feature?..

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