From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 01:01:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14C116A4CE; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:01:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2220443D45; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 01:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id F03F15323; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:01:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id BD1A75308; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:01:11 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 509E633C6A; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:01:11 +0100 (CET) To: Scott Long References: <40007D14.6090205@freebsd.org> <40008E4A.3060604@freebsd.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:01:11 +0100 In-Reply-To: <40008E4A.3060604@freebsd.org> (Scott Long's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:44:10 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of RAIDFrame X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:01:23 -0000 Scott Long writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > > I'm having trouble seeing what RF does that Vinum (or at least a > > properly GEOMified Vinum) can't do... > Please read the RAIDframe documents at http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/RAIDframe > before you ask again. I have, long ago, and frankly it sounds like GEOM with a bunch of RAID classes. We already have GEOM, and the RAID classes are practically trivial to implement once you have GEOM. Considering that RF is unusable in -CURRENT (any attempt to use it causes a panic) and nobody is working on it or has been in a long time, the least you could do is disconnect it from the build. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no