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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by throwaway2048 on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:17AM (#18813625)
it does many things besides RAID, its more or less a generic "do things with abstracted block layers" tool these days.
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Re:Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died by thoxahr on Thursday January 03, 2019 @03:28AM (#18813666)
The similarly named "dm" (device mapper) is a generic abstract block layer tool. md is still specifically a software raid implementation.
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