Re: Dmraid development status - 1.0.0rc15?

Heinz Mauelshagen <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:35:32 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.ataraid
Organization	Red Hat GmbH
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On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:20 +0200, Antti Mäkelä wrote:
> Hey,
> 
>    could someone explain what this feature in Kernel 2.6.38 means?
> 
> Skeleton for the DM target that will be the bridge from DM to MD 
> (initially RAID456 and later RAID1). It provides a way to use 
> device-mapper interfaces to the MD RAID456 drivers.
> 
>    http://git.kernel.org/linus/9d09e663d5502c46f2d9481c04c1087e1c2da698
> 
>    Can I now stop hunting for dmraid5 kernel patches?

Yes, so it should be :-)

>  Do I still need the
> dmraid userspace tools? 

Yes, in order to mamange your ATARAID sets.

> What does this mean in practice?

Carry on using dmraid userspace as before.

Heinz

> 
>    Thanks!
> 
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