Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:48:50 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geom_raid5 inclusion in HEAD? Message-ID: <fgs516$mj8$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <196381.86340.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20071106131741.grldkfpy80s4sw0w@newwebmail.jnielsen.net> <196381.86340.qm@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Arne Wörner wrote: > Not recently... And: "No"... > IIRC they believed, that it is too much code and too complex code... Maybe that > was the polite form of "chaotic/un-maintain-able code"... :-)) I don't remember entire discussions about geom_raid5 but I seem to recall there was concern about its aggressive caching, possibly in the write path, which could make recovery in case of e.g. power outage problematic. I'm possibly mis-remembering this so feel free to ignore if it's not relevant to your geom_raid5.
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