Future of RAIDFrame

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:30 PM -0700 2004/01/10, Scott Long wrote:

>                           Also, I've seen next to zero interest in it
>  from others, except for the occasional reminder that it doesn't work.

	I'm very sad to hear that.  I was very happy to hear that FreeBSD 
finally had an alternative to vinum (other than ccd), especially one 
that was shared with some other *BSD platforms.

	I say this not because I don't have the greatest respect for 
Greg, but because I've had problems in the past with vinum in complex 
configurations (RAID-5, or anything combined with softupdates), and I 
feel that a little friendly competition would be a good thing.


	I have a 4-way PPro/200 fileserver downstairs that I hope to get 
installed very soon, and it's got twelve 18GB hard drives, plus a 
hardware RAID controller.  I was hoping to re-do my previous FreeBSD 
software RAID benchmarking (see 
<http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/vinum.html>) comparing 
ccd, vinum, RAIDframe, and the hardware controller all on the same 
machine.

	I'd be willing to make this machine a development & testing 
system for RAID code, although I am not a programmer and would not be 
able to hack it myself.  I'll be glad to do what I can to help, if 
someone decides to take over the code.

>                                                            All it needs
>  is one or two other people to share some of the work and testing
>  with me.

	I'll be glad to do some testing.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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