Re: [dm-devel] RAID5 support ?

[Neil Brown <neilb suse de>]

On Saturday October 22, alanh fairlite demon co uk wrote:
> I read on September 23rd that NVIDIA spoke about the need to support
> RAID5 in device-mapper and that RedHat was going to speak to them about
> supporting it.

I'm curious to know why md/raid5 is not sufficient...

More usefully though, I'd be very happy to talk about how md/raid5 can
be made to be sufficient.  I'd be happy for it to integrate more
closely with dm, if that was seen to be of value.

NeilBrown