Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:29:09 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: First steps towards importing gvirstor into -current Message-ID: <epspv7$a9e$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Hi! As announced, the plan was to start working on importing gvirstor into CVS after 6.2 was successfully released. For those who don't know, gvirstor is a GEOM class providing storage virtualisation facility, i.e. its purpose is to offer the ability to create a virtual storage device of arbitrarily large size (typically several terabytes) which consists of an arbitrary number of physical storage devices (actually any lower-level GEOM providers, including RAID devices) of arbitrary size (typically 50 GB - 400 GB hard drives). The latest sources are available in p4 and conveniently on FreeBSD's wiki site: http://wiki.freebsd.org/gvirstor . There are some known minor issues that will be fixed in the following days (mostly related to overly verbose error messages), so (at the suggestion of my mentor - pjd) I'm inviting interested users to try it out and report any problems found (if there are such). Also, benchmarks of gvirstor in close-to-real-life usage are welcome. The idea is to stabilize the current code, and new features will be developed later.
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