Re: dm core patches

From: James Bottomley
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 12:07:57 EST


On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 11:57, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Nope, this looks pretty spot-on to me. I have to agree with Lars and
> rather keep it simple and straight forward, than introduce shady
> informational bits.

OK, I pretty much agree, that's why I labelled the informational piece
as "possibly".

About the only use I can see for it is predictive failure, which was all
the rage a while ago, but seems to have quieted down somewhat. I agree
certainly that predictive failure is far more useful to RAID than
multi-path.

James


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