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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 =20
> happening with raid 5 support on ata-raid.
>
> At present, raid 5 arrays are detected and can be used, though =20
> looking at the code, there is no support for parity. Hence running =20
> raid 5 is effectively running raid 0.
>
> If this is likely to be the case when 6 is shipped, there should at =20=

> least be a warning regarding this at boot time.

Actually my plan was to disable it entirely. It should newer have =20
slipped in now that we have 20/20 hindsight, but getting the metadata =20=

gathering code tested seemed like a good idea to me back when...


S=F8ren Schmidt
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