Future of RAIDFrame

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:

Scott> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>> Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
>> 
>>> I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a
>>> proven and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm having trouble seeing what RF does that Vinum (or at least a
>> properly GEOMified Vinum) can't do...
>> 
>> DES

Scott> Please read the RAIDframe documents at
Scott> http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/RAIDframe before you ask again.

Having used Vinum is production and on home boxes for some time, and
having come in contact with Raidframe on NetBSD several times, I would
distill this to several points.

- Vinum is fairly fragile and a number of operations have vastly
   non-obvious steps.

- Vinum's support for different types of RAID is limited.

- Vinum's abstractions don't work for more complex cases.

That said, we need a strong and robust software raid.

Dave.

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