[sles-beta] SLES Storage / MD RAID feature

[Robert Wipfel]

Not sure if SUSE is picking up the upstream patches for SP3, but MD is now
also block layer DISCARD (TRIM) aware, so works better with SSDs.

--
Robert


On 3/15/13 8:58 AM, "Lars Marowsky-Bree" <lmb at suse.com> wrote:

>On 2013-03-15T13:47:42, Decker Maximilian <Maximilian.Decker at cancom.de>
>wrote:
>
>Hi Maximilian,
>
>> General recommendation in Linux land (AFAIK) sees LVM for just the
>>volume pools and MD as the
>> RAID layer (so no LVM RAID).
>
>Yes. For non-clustered mirrors, this is preferrable.
>
>> So, long story short - something like this already on the SLES roadmap ?
>> Or maybe already there and I just missed it ?
>> (/proc/mdstat only shows a very generic form of status display here)
>
>I don't have access to a non-Linux system, so I'm not sure what you're
>asking.
>
>Are you asking for something to show you which regions in the md bitmap
>are dirty?
>
>(The MD device always syncs as a whole, you don't get to pick which parts
>to sync exclusively. This will not change.)
>
>
>Regards,
>    Lars
>
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