[HEADS UP] Merge of projects/gvinum to head

[Nenhum_de_Nos]

On Mon, March 16, 2009 12:59, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
> On man, mar 16, 2009 at 04:58:00pm +0100, Ulf Lilleengen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is a heads-up for a merge of gvinum project code into HEAD. This
>> means
>> that gvinum implementation will be changed some. The code is based on
>> the
>> work done by Lukas Ertl as well as the work I did before/during Google
>> SoC
>> 2007 and afterwards. It has been staying in p4 for some time, and then
>> moved
>> to the subversion project repository not long ago. The main reason for
>> the
>> delay of getting this into HEAD have been the lack of reviewers of the
>> code,
>> but after some discussion and help from testers, I've decided this is a
>> good
>> time to get it in (should perhaps have been merged a bit earlier)
>> Testers
>> have spotted several differences from the original gvinum, and I've
>> tried to
>> make it behave as the old implementation wherever that seemed the best
>> way to
>> go. Luckily, the work has gotten a bit of attention lately, thanks to
>> Rick C.
>> Petty for helping out with testing and bugfixing, as well as all others
>> who
>> have dared to run the new gvinum. So, what does this update offer?
>
> And I plan on importing it within 1-2 weeks :)

great work, thanks.

what's the status of raid5 ? is it ok to production enviroments ? I have
been using gmirror and gstripe just cause I can't do raid5 and I'm waiting
for ZFS to hit production state.

thanks,

matheus
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