Re: Hello. Patch time (drivers/block/loop.c)

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolabs.com)
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:29:34 -0700


On Dec 22, 2001 03:14 -0500, Eric Windisch wrote:
> I may be looking at this and the multi-device drivers in the near
> future as I have a need for support for partitions on these devices;

Contact Neil Brown, as this is already done. That is a "feature" of
Linux - most things you want to do have already been done by someone
else.

> I think it would be really neat if the software-raid could eventually
> become compatable with hardware raid.. although much slower

In many cases, software raid is as fast or faster than hardware raid.
What do you mean by "compatible"?

Cheers, Andreas

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