From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 14:32:34 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 5D5D016A4D0 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:32:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3836A43D48 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 10299 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jan 2004 22:32:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 22:32:30 -0000 Message-ID: <40007D14.6090205@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:30:44 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 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: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 22:32:34 -0000 All, I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a proven and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, while it was made to work pretty well on 4.x, it has never been viable on 5.x; it never survived the introduction of GEOM and removal of the old disk layer. I'm coming to the conclusion that I really don't have the time to work on it in my spare time. Also, I've seen next to zero interest in it from others, except for the occasional reminder that it doesn't work. I still believe in it, and I still believe that it can be integrated into GEOM and become the all-singing-all-dancing raid engine for the OS. It will probably never be an LVM stack, but I've also always believed that LVM and RAID are related but separate layers. It can certainly build upon whatever LVM layer appears in GEOM. All it needs is one or two other people to share some of the work and testing with me. I have a Work-In-Progress for converting and integrating it into GEOM on my home Perforce server. It hasn't been touched in several months and I really don't see myself being able to finish alone it in the near future. Since it's been hanging over my head for so long, I'm very, very close to just removing it and moving on. If anyone has the interest AND time available to help out with keeping it, please let me know ASAP. Scott