GEOM + Vinum

[Lukas Ertl]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Kevin Wooten wrote:

> I am partially done with a replacement (not vinum compatible), that will
> hopefully do the same thing in the end, and more. I am trying to make a
> vinum that is more GEOM-ish. What I am experimenting with is using
> mirror, and ccd to handle the mirroring and disk concatenation. Then
> writing a single geom_stripe module that will stripe (with or without
> parity data). Once this is finished, the GEOM config. should allow just
> about all the complex configurations imaginable, even more than vinum.

The fine thing about GEOM is that it offers a whole bunch of new
possibilities.  I'm very interested to see a "native" GEOM RAID
implementation, and I think Pawel is working on this one.

I think we should really get together on a separate mailing list - is it
time for freebsd-geom@ yet?

regards,
le

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