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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:54:15 +0200
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
Message-ID:  <4BD07127.6000601@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <n2ob269bc571004220842q57913d19kfe4196bc92581c4e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <n2ob269bc571004220842q57913d19kfe4196bc92581c4e@mail.gmail.com>

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Freddie Cash ha scritto:
>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we can
>> live without it?

Lack of ataraid means no more arX devices, right? I'd say it's not fatal
for HEAD, but it is for a -STABLE branch.

> ataraid(4) has served it's
> purpose, tiding us over until GEOM RAID facilities were in place.  Now it's
> time for it to be retired.

It doesn't seem to me that sysinstall supports gmirror or gstripe, so
even if they could be better, currently I think many users still use
ataraid for simple installations with mirrored disks.

-- 
Alex Dupre



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