HostRaid support on FreeBSD

[Søren Schmidt]

Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> 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.

Cool, I'll take a look at that after I have the Adaptec format done, 
that would then bring us to 5 different supported formats, oh boy....

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-Søren