Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

[forgot to include Christophe Varoqui in CC]

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> 
>>Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>
>>
>>>- Would an EVMS plugin or a simple script calling dmsetup be the way to
>>>go? If I go the dmsetup route, is there any chance to get partition
>>>detection on top of the ATARAID for free (by calling another dm tool)?
>>
>>
>>This was posted a while back; I don't know what the status of it being
>>merged into util-linux is.
>>
>>http://lwn.net/Articles/13958/

Christophe V.: What is the currrent status of your work?


> The two links below mention the same problems of partitions over dm:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107383495031133
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107384987212233
> 
> And here two links for partitions over md:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107401984323154
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/11/13/182
> And the patch to do partitions over md:
> http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-devel/2.5/2004-02-03:03/006MdPartition
> 
> (Related to the problem mentioned earlier in this thread)
> Christophe Saout seems to already have some prototype to handle ATARAID
> devices in general:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107652932411321
> 
> Now the question is: How do we fit all of this together?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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http://www.hailfinger.org/

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