From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 31 18:19:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF0016A586; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3A343D5A; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:19:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from ibm57aec.bellsouth.net ([65.13.105.239]) by imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20061031181940.EITN29144.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm57aec.bellsouth.net>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:19:40 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.33] (really [65.13.105.239]) by ibm57aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20061031181939.PJF3470.ibm57aec.bellsouth.net@[192.168.1.33]>; Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:19:39 -0500 Message-ID: <45479354.7060301@goldsword.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:17:56 -0500 From: "J. T. Farmer" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian A. Seklecki" References: <002501c6fd08$15549bf0$640a000a@bretlaptop> <20061031120002.B63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <20061031120002.B63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 03:12:54 +0000 Cc: Bret Esquivel , 'Mathieu Arnold' , wmoran@collaborativefusion.com, ke han , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Krempasky Mark , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:19:41 -0000 Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Bret Esquivel wrote: >> Mathieu, >> >> I was actually asking if there is an "amrstat" type utility that I >> can check >> the array status while in production. Thanks for the advice on >> 6-STABLE, I > Well, it was sysutils/megarc for PERC/4. On PERC/5 mfi(1), it's > whatever we decide to call it. > > Dell is shipping a CLI with OMSA or whatever. We may have to hack on > the kernel interface: > > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2006-October/027645.html > > > We've got the /dev/mfi? management interface already, just > need to port the Linux code over. > > I'm really starting to think OpenBSD will beat FreeBSD to the game > with the bio(4) RAID management hardware abstraction subsystem: > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bio&sektion=4&arch=i386&apropos=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current Is there enough similarly in the work to think about joining forces and building one set of tools for all the BSDs? I know that there are differences at the driver level, but I think that in the longer term, that would be better than simply copying and porting code... John Farmer ------------------------------------------------------------------ John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software