Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:19:46 -0700 From: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raidframe in -CURRENT Message-ID: <200308150919.46072.darcy@wavefire.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308150303050.2373-100000@mail.allcaps.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308150303050.2373-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
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On Friday 15 August 2003 03:07, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > I'm not going to speak for Scott Long, but I actually looked into doing > something about RAIDFrame. > > The problem is that GEOM provides a significant superset of the same > functionality as RAIDFrame. GEOM virtualizes different storage layers = in > much the same way as RAIDFrame did (but with more flexibility). > > The problem is that Poul-Henning Kamp hasn't gotten around to implement= ing > the RAID virtualized modules yet. > > Consequently, FreeBSD is currently in a state where the GEOM equivalent= to > RAIDFrame doesn't yet work, but doing the work to fix RAIDFrame is just= as > much work as doing it in GEOM. :( > > -a Scott, Poul-Henning, can either of you provide any insight as to when a v= iable=20 software RAID archetecure will be available in -CURRENT, I have tried vin= um,=20 however its' inability to handel hotspare has turned it into a non option= for=20 me at this time. --=20 Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com
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