Subject: Re: Experimental support for ATA "RAID" volumes
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/2003 12:31:47
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> What are your plans for raid1 or more ?
I plan to implement it eventually.
> We should probably be using the raidframe framework for this, and maybe for
> raid0 too. My idea for this was to make the raidframe autoconfig stuff more
> flexible, so that it could be autoconfigured from its own on-disk data,
> or from the ataraid pseudo-device.
Honestly, I don't believe we should be. RAIDframe is far too heavy-weight.
There is no need for it to do ... it uses threads FAR too much. It is
way too much object code.
I would actually prefer to see a much lighter-weight RAID implementation
in NetBSD.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>