<story><title>Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died</title><url>https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg61993.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sowbug</author><text>The post where he offered to step up as md maintainer: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lkml.org&amp;#x2F;lkml&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;455&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lkml.org&amp;#x2F;lkml&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;1&amp;#x2F;4&amp;#x2F;455&lt;/a&gt; and discussion about the change: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-magazine.com&amp;#x2F;Issues&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;186&amp;#x2F;Kernel-News&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.linux-magazine.com&amp;#x2F;Issues&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;186&amp;#x2F;Kernel-News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A very brief bio: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raid.wiki.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;User:Shaohua_Li&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;raid.wiki.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;index.php&amp;#x2F;User:Shaohua_Li&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Patches to Linux kernel while at Facebook: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;pub&amp;#x2F;scm&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;kernel&amp;#x2F;git&amp;#x2F;torvalds&amp;#x2F;linux.git&amp;#x2F;log&amp;#x2F;?qt=author&amp;amp;q=shli%40fb.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;git.kernel.org&amp;#x2F;pub&amp;#x2F;scm&amp;#x2F;linux&amp;#x2F;kernel&amp;#x2F;git&amp;#x2F;torvalds&amp;#x2F;lin...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux md maintainer, Shaohua Li, has died</title><url>https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg61993.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jensv</author><text>md is multiple devices. It&amp;#x27;s a RAID implementation in Linux kernel available since kernel release 2.0. It allows you to create RAID level 0, 10, 4, 5 and 6. It has various optimizations like utilizing SSE and MMX instructions. It&amp;#x27;s a standard software RAID in Linux.</text></comment>