From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 10 15:56:42 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 B7B7416A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6903743D2D for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2004 15:56:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 13385 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jan 2004 23:56:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 10 Jan 2004 23:56:39 -0000 Message-ID: <400090D1.8050701@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:54:57 -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 References: <40007D14.6090205@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40007D14.6090205@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 23:56:42 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > 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 > I totally forgot that I imported a snapshot of my RF/GEOM changes into the Perforce server on repoman.freebsd.org back in October. It unfortunately doesn't have a full change history, but it should be enough to see where I was heading. For those without direct Perforce access, you can view the diffs here: http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?ignore=View+change%3A&CH=40812 Those with Perforce access should look at the 'scottl-rf' branch. Scott