On Friday 26 June 2009 12:22:50 pm Greg Freemyer wrote:
David,
Since you've become the dmraid expert, one question that I should know but I don't is:
Is dmraid a seperate project from dm (device mapper)?
ie. Most kernel projects have their own mailing list, project team, maintainer, etc.. I had always *assumed* dmraid was a standalone kernel project, but I've recently seen some posts that imply it is part of dm.
Thanks Greg
Yes and No :p
They are both redhat projects but with different authors. "device-mapper"
gives you "dmsetup" and was originally done by Joe Thornber
(thornber@sistina.com). See: http://sources.redhat.com/dm/ dmsetup creates the
raid environment, creates the entries (dmraid nodes) in /dev/mapper, etc.
dmraid - activates, deactivates and accounts for the running raid processes
and it is manned by Heinz Mauelshagen