From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 09:19:49 2003 Return-Path: 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 D2E7A37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.dbitech.ca (radius.wavefire.com [64.141.13.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A724643F3F for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darcy@wavefire.com) Received: (qmail 5461 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 16:46:31 -0000 Received: from dbitech.wavefire.com (HELO dbitech) (darcy@64.141.15.253) by radius.wavefire.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 2003 16:46:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Darcy Buskermolen Organization: Wavefire Technologies Corp. To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:19:46 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200308150919.46072.darcy@wavefire.com> cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raidframe in -CURRENT X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:19:50 -0000 On Friday 15 August 2003 03:07, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > I'm not going to speak for Scott Long, but I actually looked into doing > something about RAIDFrame. > > The problem is that GEOM provides a significant superset of the same > functionality as RAIDFrame. GEOM virtualizes different storage layers = in > much the same way as RAIDFrame did (but with more flexibility). > > The problem is that Poul-Henning Kamp hasn't gotten around to implement= ing > the RAID virtualized modules yet. > > Consequently, FreeBSD is currently in a state where the GEOM equivalent= to > RAIDFrame doesn't yet work, but doing the work to fix RAIDFrame is just= as > much work as doing it in GEOM. :( > > -a Scott, Poul-Henning, can either of you provide any insight as to when a v= iable=20 software RAID archetecure will be available in -CURRENT, I have tried vin= um,=20 however its' inability to handel hotspare has turned it into a non option= for=20 me at this time. --=20 Darcy Buskermolen Wavefire Technologies Corp. ph: 250.717.0200 fx: 250.763.1759 http://www.wavefire.com