From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 22 15:54:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49111065673 for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:54:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ale@FreeBSD.org) Received: from andxor.it (relay.andxor.it [195.223.2.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E6488FC1A for ; Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:54:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 38928 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2010 15:54:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ale.andxor.it) (192.168.2.5) by andxor.it with SMTP; 22 Apr 2010 15:54:15 -0000 Message-ID: <4BD07127.6000601@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:54:15 +0200 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090624) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4BD06BD9.6030401@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switchover to CAM ATA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:54:17 -0000 Freddie Cash ha scritto: >> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we can >> live without it? Lack of ataraid means no more arX devices, right? I'd say it's not fatal for HEAD, but it is for a -STABLE branch. > 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. It doesn't seem to me that sysinstall supports gmirror or gstripe, so even if they could be better, currently I think many users still use ataraid for simple installations with mirrored disks. -- Alex Dupre