Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:32:02 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.org> To: Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: State Of Raid 5 in RELENG_6 Message-ID: <606DFC2A-BE8F-401A-A790-03BF92A66190@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <43276D91.5000109@cs.unisa.edu.au> References: <43276D91.5000109@cs.unisa.edu.au>
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On 14/09/2005, at 2:23, Benjamin Close wrote: > Hi All, > With FreeBSD 6 getting closer, I was curious about what was =20 > happening with raid 5 support on ata-raid. > > At present, raid 5 arrays are detected and can be used, though =20 > looking at the code, there is no support for parity. Hence running =20 > raid 5 is effectively running raid 0. > > If this is likely to be the case when 6 is shipped, there should at =20= > least be a warning regarding this at boot time. Actually my plan was to disable it entirely. It should newer have =20 slipped in now that we have 20/20 hindsight, but getting the metadata =20= gathering code tested seemed like a good idea to me back when... S=F8ren Schmidt sos@FreeBSD.org
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