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Date:      Wed, 14 Sep 2005 08:32:02 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: State Of Raid 5 in RELENG_6
Message-ID:  <606DFC2A-BE8F-401A-A790-03BF92A66190@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <43276D91.5000109@cs.unisa.edu.au>
References:  <43276D91.5000109@cs.unisa.edu.au>

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On 14/09/2005, at 2:23, Benjamin Close wrote:

> Hi All,
>    With FreeBSD 6 getting closer, I was curious about what was  
> happening with raid 5 support on ata-raid.
>
> At present, raid 5 arrays are detected and can be used, though  
> looking at the code, there is no support for parity. Hence running  
> raid 5 is effectively running raid 0.
>
> If this is likely to be the case when 6 is shipped, there should at  
> least be a warning regarding this at boot time.

Actually my plan was to disable it entirely. It should newer have  
slipped in now that we have 20/20 hindsight, but getting the metadata  
gathering code tested seemed like a good idea to me back when...


Søren Schmidt
sos@FreeBSD.org





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