Richard Tector wrote: > On 22/04/2010 19:48, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Alexander Motin wrote: >>> So what is the public opinion: Is the lack of ataraid(4) fatal or we can >>> live without it? >> >> I believe it's fatal in long run. This would present significant >> challenge for users who rely on this functionality from upgrading from >> 8.x to 9.0 later on. Especially for ones using striped disks and RAID5. >> >> Therefore while it's no problem to have it in HEAD for now, but it >> will have to be addressed before the release. > > Could I also add that the removal of ataraid would affect those users > who dual-boot with Windows and rely on the psuedo-raid provided by most > Intel chipsets to be able to share the same pair of disks. Well, this won't be a problem if we have GEOM classes that can understand metadata created by the ATA RAID BIOS(es). But we don't those classes at the moment. -MaximReceived on Thu Apr 22 2010 - 18:08:49 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:40:03 UTC