On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi_at_gmail.com> wrote: > On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > > 2011/10/4 Lev Serebryakov <lev_at_freebsd.org> > > > >> One thing is missed from software RAIDs is spare drives and state > >> monitoring (yes, I know, that geom_raid supports spare drivers for > >> metadata formats which supports them, but it not universal solution). > >> > > Sounds impressive! Will be very useful for those using GEOM-based RAID > > (gmirror, gstripe, graid3, graid5, etc). > > > > Just curious: would the geom-events framework, and in particular the > > geom-events script, be useful for ZFS setups, for initiating replacements > > and providing "hot-spare" support? > > Work in the zfsd project branch already seems to do this properly. > Please note that some HBAs (like mps) don't play well with hotswap on some > branches, whereas others (mfi) might, depending on how things are coded up > and chipset support. > Cool! Sounds like we're just around the corner from having a top-notch software RAID stack via GEOM/ZFS with all the automatic goodies one expects/hopes for. :) Keep up the good work people!! -- Freddie Cash fjwcash_at_gmail.comReceived on Tue Oct 04 2011 - 18:17:24 UTC
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