Re: multipath md devices

On Thursday September 23, bluca@comedia.it wrote:

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:35:23PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:

quoted

Yeah, IBM wrote a little app to help with that.  We stuffed it into the
mdadm package we ship since that seemed the most appropriate place for
it.  It's called mdmpd and that's it's job basically.  Very simple app,
but doesn't run on upstream kernels at the moment (it wants the md event
interface which hasn't yet been submitted upstream by Neil).

iirc the it has been submitted and refused
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109417961300007&r=1&w=2&n=8

Well..... it's still alive in -mm, and where there's life, there's
hope (and need of vitals, as the old Gaffer usually added:-).

NeilBrown