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Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?
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Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> writes:
> If a lowly user's vote counts for anything, I'd vote for the complete
> removal of ataraid support.  We have gstripe, gmirror, graid3, graid5, and
> zfs (and gvinum for the masochistics).  :)  We don't need to support any =
of
> the crappy pseudo-raid "hardware" out there.  ataraid(4) has served it's
> purpose, tiding us over until GEOM RAID facilities were in place.  Now it=
's
> time for it to be retired.

gstripe can't create a bootable striped set; ataraid can.

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