On 14/09/2005, at 2:23, Benjamin Close wrote: > Hi All, > With FreeBSD 6 getting closer, I was curious about what was > happening with raid 5 support on ata-raid. > > At present, raid 5 arrays are detected and can be used, though > looking at the code, there is no support for parity. Hence running > raid 5 is effectively running raid 0. > > If this is likely to be the case when 6 is shipped, there should at > least be a warning regarding this at boot time. Actually my plan was to disable it entirely. It should newer have slipped in now that we have 20/20 hindsight, but getting the metadata gathering code tested seemed like a good idea to me back when... Søren Schmidt sos_at_FreeBSD.orgReceived on Wed Sep 14 2005 - 04:32:23 UTC
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