Installing 5.4-S on nvidia raid1?

[Christian Brueffer]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> Christian Brueffer wrote:
> > It doesn't work because the ataraid code in 5.4 doesn't understand 
> >the NVIDIA MediaShield metadata format.  It is supported on HEAD
> >and the RELENG_6 branch that will result in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE.
> >
> >Take a look at the ataraid(4) manpage in HEAD and RELENG_6 for more
> >information on how software RAID works and which metadata formats
> >are supported.
> 
> That explains it, thanks.
> 
> Any idea if/when the relevant code will be MFCd?
> 

The code is called ATA mkIII, you can get a snapshot for RELENG_5 from
http://people.freebsd.org/~sos

Soren is interested in MFCing the code, but it has to be made sure that
it doesn't introduce regressions.  Also it breaks binary compatibility
with the ATA tools, so you would have to recompile them.

Soren and the release engineering team are authoritive in that area,
I don't know what the planning looks like at the moment.

At the moment your best bet is to get 6.0-BETA2 and see if it works
for you.  If it doesn't, we need to fix it :-)

- Christian

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