On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:26:32PM -0700, Chris Cameron wrote: > I thought the manpage was just covering things that worked well, and in > the code itself were things waiting to be tested better. It shows a "3 > chunk raid 1" setup, but doesn't mention anything about hot standby. I'm > not aware of 3 disk RAID 1 otherwise. > > Also, for some reason (I think past misc@ posts) I was under the > impression that this would be similar to Vinum. From what I'm hearing > back it's actually a RAIDFrame replacement. The manpage doesn't really > go over it's final goal.
Current goal is to get to a functional raid 1 and then we'll move on to the rest. > > Testing related: > I saw your message on the 15th asking for help. I plan to run that > through a SPARC machine, but I'm not sure if there are different ways to > poke at the new code. Will different underlying hardware (besides > architecture) make a difference, or is this a layer above that? It does a little. Some drivers are more reliable than other under failure conditions. The crappy part is that there is only so much we can do under certain circumstances. I do care to see reports though. > > > Chris > > > Marco Peereboom wrote: > >I'll take this as the documentation isn't good enough. Can you point me > >to the area that isn't clear? > > > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:29:20AM -0700, Chris Cameron wrote: > >>I'm in a good position to test Softraid on an AMD and an UltraSPARC, > >>however I've realized I don't know a lot about it (what -exactly- it's > >>working to accomplish, and commands to use). > >> > >>Is there an overview of Softraid to get me started so I can be of some > >>use? > >> > >> > >>Chris
