Re: Switchover to CAM ATA?

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des_at_des.no>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:34:14 +0200
Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Richard Tector <richardtector_at_thekeelecentre.com> writes:
> > 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).

Most pseudo-raid kit has nifty features like checksum offloading,
composite writes etc. which can improve performance considerably.  You
can't access those from GEOM.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des_at_des.no
Received on Tue Apr 27 2010 - 11:34:48 UTC

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