Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:02:38 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <fs@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone working on fsck? Message-ID: <20030317230147.I66343-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <3E769970.3A05ECAF@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > I am still intrested in improvements to fsck since I'm planning to buy > > > several systems with two 1.4TB IDE RAID5 arrays in them soon. > > > > For these types of systems doing a block caching layer with a prefetch > > that understands how many spindles there are would be a huge benefit. > > I call that layer "Vinum" or "RAIDFrame", since that's a job I > expect that code to do for me. 8-). They are not responsible for data caching. Only informing the upper layers how many spindles they have. Software RAID should be a transform only in my opinion. There is no reason to have duplicate block caches in system memory. Cheers, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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