Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 20:33:09 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> Subject: Re: HostRaid support on FreeBSD Message-ID: <40E06465.9010706@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <200406240201.i5O21H5g048428@ambrisko.com> References: <200406240201.i5O21H5g048428@ambrisko.com>
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Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Søren Schmidt writes: > | Reading the metadata off the disks and using that info to access a RAID > | array is easy and can be had even without docs in a few hours. Writing > | back the metadata in case of failures etc to retain sanity of the array > | is "somewhat" more difficult. Actually I'm working with this currently > | for new formats for ata-raid and its not trivial to get right. > > Of which we've done the Intel 2 drive format read, write deal with > broken mirrors etc. Writing and dealing with broke mirrors was harder > and can lead to breaking the Intel RAID BIOS code :-( > > It's available in our -stable ata SATA patches that have been updated to > 4.10-RELEASE. Cool, I'll take a look at that after I have the Adaptec format done, that would then bring us to 5 different supported formats, oh boy.... -- -Søren
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