Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:08:50 -0700 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Richard Tector <richardtector@thekeelecentre.com> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? Message-ID: <4BD0ACD2.3040805@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4BD0A689.8000508@thekeelecentre.com> References: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> <4BD099E6.6000402@FreeBSD.org> <4BD0A689.8000508@thekeelecentre.com>
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Richard Tector wrote: > On 22/04/2010 19:48, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Alexander Motin wrote: >>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we can >>> live without it? >> >> I believe it's fatal in long run. This would present significant >> challenge for users who rely on this functionality from upgrading from >> 8.x to 9.0 later on. Especially for ones using striped disks and RAID5. >> >> Therefore while it's no problem to have it in HEAD for now, but it >> will have to be addressed before the release. > > Could I also add that the removal of ataraid would affect those users > who dual-boot with Windows and rely on the psuedo-raid provided by most > Intel chipsets to be able to share the same pair of disks. Well, this won't be a problem if we have GEOM classes that can understand metadata created by the ATA RAID BIOS(es). But we don't those classes at the moment. -Maxim
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