From owner-freebsd-small Tue Sep 1 17:22:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26402 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26391 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02171; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:18:53 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199809011718.RAA02171@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marc Nicholas cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A little off topic... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:53:09 -0400." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 17:18:53 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sorry that this is a little off topic, but it does relate to a PicoBSD > project I'm working on :-) > > Anyone know of a software RAID-5 solution for FreeBSD? Pref. something > that has source code under a BSD-style license...but commercial offerings > could be an option. > > Yes, I know I could use a hardware solution :-p But I need some more > flexibility and don't really want to write one from scratch. The first question is "why do you think you need RAID-5"? The second one is "why do you want it in software?" You might be able to license the Vinum RAID-5 module from Cybernet Systems when it's available; you should talk initially with Greg Lehey (grog@freebsd.org) about this to guage the likelihood of such a license being viable. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message