GEOM + Vinum

[Soeren Straarup]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:

> 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'm currently trying to understand how GEOM works.
I have no pros or cons on the code, eating it raw.

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

I would be there.

>
> regards,
> le
>
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My 2 cents is to start building the house from the ground with the geom
classes, then add on the algorithms from the existing vinum.
and end up with the roof as is the the vinum configuration tool.

Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
FreeBSD wannabe   | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R
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