MFC: graid(8) (RAID GEOM) support
Doug Ambrisko
ambrisko at ambrisko.com
Tue Jun 21 18:32:39 UTC 2011
Jeremy Chadwick writes:
| Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought both lists would want to know
| about this.
|
| Looks like mav@ just committed this ~17 hours ago:
| http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/raid/g_raid.c
|
| Those who have historically wanted to use Intel MatrixRAID (now called
| Intel RST (Rapid Storage Technology)), but haven't due to the severe
| issues/risks with ataraid(4), will probably be very interested in
| this commit. I know I am!
|
| I plan on stress-testing the Intel support on a 2-disk system with
| RAID-1 enabled, and will document my experiences, procedures, etc...
We definitely want people to help test this out. It was designed from
the start to be robust and do recovery for RAID 1 which is our use.
We had previously hacked enhanced support into ataraid(4) and ata(4) for
use in-house.
Doug A.
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