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On 17/01/07, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:

> [...after reading the slashdotter's piece of wisdom...]
>
> Yes, but that's the kind of functionality I have always
> expected to be present in software raid solutions. I
> hope I'll live to see this implemented in geom.

That made my eyes bleed.

Bring on ZFS and its method of managing JBODs.



Adrian