Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:01:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Subject: Re: HostRaid support on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200406240201.i5O21H5g048428@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <40D99D3B.8010608@DeepCore.dk>
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Søren Schmidt writes: | Reading the metadata off the disks and using that info to access a RAID | array is easy and can be had even without docs in a few hours. Writing | back the metadata in case of failures etc to retain sanity of the array | is "somewhat" more difficult. Actually I'm working with this currently | for new formats for ata-raid and its not trivial to get right. Of which we've done the Intel 2 drive format read, write deal with broken mirrors etc. Writing and dealing with broke mirrors was harder and can lead to breaking the Intel RAID BIOS code :-( It's available in our -stable ata SATA patches that have been updated to 4.10-RELEASE. Doug A.
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