From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 28 20:47:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BCF159AF for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:47:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA61979; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:17:10 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:17:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: John Saunders Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System crash on "vinum start" Message-ID: <19990929131709.A96948@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199909282231.PAA16484@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <19990929034142.17186.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990929034142.17186.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au>; from John Saunders on Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 01:41:42PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 29 September 1999 at 13:41:42 +1000, John Saunders wrote: > In freebsd-current you wrote: >>> Being in the hardware RAID business myself I cannot help asking: why do you >>> want to loose the hardware RAID in favor of a software solution? Flexibility >>> (just guessing) or price maybe? > >> Because DPT has screwed this customer over for the last time... > > I suspect that back porting the ida (Compaq SMART RAID) driver from > -current to 3.x would be both quicker and cheaper that the software > development you propose. At least that way you don't have to deal > with DPT. > > Any software additions to support hot swap and auto-rebuild would need > to interoperate with vinum. From my understanding, vinum will survive > a failed disk and continue to run. However no mechanism is yet available > to automatically rebuild a new disk. Correct. At the moment it needs to be done manually. That's what Rod is asking for. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message