From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 1 01:05:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05018 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 01:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA05004; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 01:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10522; Tue, 1 Oct 1996 09:18:49 +0200 (MET DST) To: Jason Thorpe cc: James Graham , "Kevin P. Neal" , hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: VPS mailing list, BSD interest? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Sep 1996 20:26:52 PDT." <199610010326.UAA21944@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 09:18:47 +0200 Message-ID: <10520.844154327@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'm not worried about that so much as "What hacks are you referring to?" >If you're specific, well, maybe some effort could be made to improve the >concatenated disk driver. The problem I'm referring to is that this should not be done in a pseudo-driver, but as a general framework for bdevs. For instance, why can't I have my root-partition striped ? There is no significant difference between the FDISK, bsd-disklabel, mirror, stripeing and raid 5 operations. They all translate a (dev+blkno+len) tupple to one or more similar tupples. I have been playing with idea this a bit and it's high on my winter project list. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.