From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 27 12:13:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id MAA26299 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:13:04 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA26293 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:13:01 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id MAA07301; Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:12:47 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501272012.MAA07301@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Help with SCSI development (fwd) To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 12:12:46 -0800 (PST) Cc: dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9501271954.AA12060@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jan 27, 95 02:54:38 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 584 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> I'm planning to write software using Freebsd that will allow files to > >> be striped over multiple disks. > > There is already software in 4.4-Lite which is designed specifically > for this purpose, although it is named badly and probably would take a > bit of porting work to get it up to speed. See /sys/dev/cd.c in a > convenient 4.4-Lite tree. That stuff is a hack. I agree with Terry, this should be done "The Right Way". -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)