Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:27:21 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Subject: Re: GEOM_RAID in GENERIC is harmful Message-ID: <201209131127.21677.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5051B1DF.9030300@norma.perm.ru> References: <50516F96.1020905@rdtc.ru> <5051ACBD.1090207@FreeBSD.org> <5051B1DF.9030300@norma.perm.ru>
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On Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:13:51 am Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > From my point of view GEOM_RAID in GENERIC kernel is a bomb, and we > will lose lots of FreeBSD beginners due to this. I had the completely opposite experience. I bought a new desktop and wanted to use the onboard SATA RAID. 9.0 didn't work out-of-the-box with a RAID-1 volume configured using the BIOS. I knew to kldload geom_raid.ko, but not all new users know to do that. I think the onboard SATA RAID on typical x86 motherboards is something we should be supporting out of the box. I don't disagree that there were some surprising side effects from enabling GEOM_RAID, but I think your viewpoint is very much one-sided. -- John Baldwin
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