From owner-freebsd-fs Tue Aug 27 15:28:14 2002 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 668CA37B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA7643E3B for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:28:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D288872FC5; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7A072D9E; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski" Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: atacontrol metadata storage In-Reply-To: <20020826130855.S46242-100000@mail.allcaps.org> Message-ID: <20020827152601.G68343-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Doug White wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Andrew P. Lentvorski wrote: > > > > > How and where is atacontrol storing its metadata for the RAID > > > configurations? > > > > Its a format internal to the Promise ATA RAID controllers. I believe they > > place it in the protected area of the disk reserved for such things. > > Ummm, really? That's interesting since I don't actually *have* a Promise > ATA RAID controller in the box I'm doing these experiments on. Are you using vinum? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message