From owner-freebsd-fs Mon Aug 26 13:13:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9277437B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (h-66-166-142-198.SNDACAGL.covad.net [66.166.142.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA4543E77 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@mail.allcaps.org) Received: by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id E38B2153C6; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7704153C2; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 13:13:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" To: Doug White Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol metadata storage In-Reply-To: <20020826115002.P60837-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> Message-ID: <20020826130855.S46242-100000@mail.allcaps.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > > > How and where is atacontrol storing its metadata for the RAID > > configurations? > > Its a format internal to the Promise ATA RAID controllers. I believe they > place it in the protected area of the disk reserved for such things. Ummm, really? That's interesting since I don't actually *have* a Promise ATA RAID controller in the box I'm doing these experiments on. > well it would sort of suck if it got lost on reboots :) Root RAID works > since the RAIDing is done in hardware. Root RAIDing worked just fine without any hardware RAID support at all. RAID rebuilding, on the other hand ... -a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message