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Subject: Re: AIC7902 Host Raid support
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 wkwu@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw wrote:
> As pointed in  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51970,
> is there any driver for the host raid function in the future?
>
> Someone tells me that Linux already has. I guess FreeBSD will do someday.

There is no support now, and there is no support planned in the immediate
future.  The hostraid metadata isn't terribly hard to support, but FreeBSD
has no infrastructure for plugging in arbitrary metadata formats.

Scott