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Date:      Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:33:56 +0100 (CET)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, john_wilson100@excite.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?
Message-ID:  <200111110833.fAB8Xun88149@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200111102227.fAAMRQV01034@mass.dis.org>

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It seems Mike Smith wrote:
> > Agreed.  I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters.  Most
> > of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms.  Note
> > that I said "guess", though.  In my language, that means "don't know
> > for sure".  I'd really like to see some objective benchmarks.
> 
> Er.
> 
> These "cheap controllers" don't have any algorithms at all to speak of; 
> they're just ATA controllers with BIOS code that supposedly understands 
> striping/mirroring.

There is no algorithm to speak of involved with striping, and just 
a little more in mirroring in the error case, but anyways..

> The "algorithms" are in the 'ar' driver, which should really just be a 
> vinum shim.

Well, the way vinum is implemented that wont work unfortunately.

-Søren

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