HostRaid support on FreeBSD
Doug Ambrisko
ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Wed Jun 23 19:01:24 PDT 2004
Søren Schmidt writes:
| Reading the metadata off the disks and using that info to access a RAID
| array is easy and can be had even without docs in a few hours. Writing
| back the metadata in case of failures etc to retain sanity of the array
| is "somewhat" more difficult. Actually I'm working with this currently
| for new formats for ata-raid and its not trivial to get right.
Of which we've done the Intel 2 drive format read, write deal with
broken mirrors etc. Writing and dealing with broke mirrors was harder
and can lead to breaking the Intel RAID BIOS code :-(
It's available in our -stable ata SATA patches that have been updated to
4.10-RELEASE.
Doug A.
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