Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:17:56 -0500 From: "J. T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> Cc: Bret Esquivel <besquivel@immense.net>, 'Mathieu Arnold' <mat@mat.cc>, wmoran@collaborativefusion.com, ke han <ke.han@redstarling.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, Krempasky Mark <mkrempasky@epsiloninteractive.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PERC 5/i mfi status? Message-ID: <45479354.7060301@goldsword.com> In-Reply-To: <20061031120002.B63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <002501c6fd08$15549bf0$640a000a@bretlaptop> <20061031120002.B63561@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org>
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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
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