svn commit: r220982 - in head: . sys/amd64/conf sys/arm/conf
sys/conf sys/i386/conf sys/ia64/conf sys/mips/conf sys/mips/malta
sys/pc98/conf sys/powerpc/conf sys/sparc64/conf sys/sun4v/conf
Alexander Motin
mav at FreeBSD.org
Sun Apr 24 10:13:22 UTC 2011
On 24.04.2011 13:07, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 08:58:58AM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
>> Author: mav
>> Date: Sun Apr 24 08:58:58 2011
>> New Revision: 220982
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/220982
>>
>> Log:
>> Switch the GENERIC kernels for all architectures to the new CAM-based ATA
>> stack. It means that all legacy ATA drivers are disabled and replaced by
>> respective CAM drivers. If you are using ATA device names in /etc/fstab or
>> other places, make sure to update them respectively (adX -> adaY,
>> acdX -> cdY, afdX -> daY, astX -> saY, where 'Y's are the sequential
>> numbers for each type in order of detection, unless configured otherwise
>> with tunables, see cam(4)).
>>
>> ataraid(4) functionality is now supported by the RAID GEOM class.
>> To use it you can load geom_raid kernel module and use graid(8) tool
>> for management. Instead of /dev/arX device names, use /dev/raid/rX.
>
> How many raid implementations, in particular, stripe and mirror ?
Same as before: one out, another in.
> Is gstripe/gmirror merged, or planned to be merged with geom_raid ?
> Does it make sense to merge if not yet ?
It is definitely possible, but it is not done yet to not put all eggs in
one basket.
--
Alexander Motin
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