On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:04:53AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Nov 18, 2007 7:46 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:32:58AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > > Thank you so much > > > > > > > Most of your questions are around rebuild or derivatives. This does not > > exist yet. My current push is to get softraid working on all arches so > > that it could get re-enabled. The rebuild stuff comes after that. > > > > Thank you so much Marco for the detailed reply. > > Just one more quick question please :-) > > One all the features in your mind has been implemented to softraid > will it make RAIDFRAME redundant?
RAIDFRAME for all its quirks and uglies still does way more than softraid. I'll be one happy man if we get to a stage that we can replace it. Besides this we'll have to make sure we are not screwing users of RAIDFRAME out there. > > Though I love and use RAIDFRAME and have overcome the initial qualms > of rebuilding the kernel from source after doing it a number of times > now I think it will still be great if Software RAID can be implemented > without having to re compile the kernel. > I know I cannot escape recompiling the kernel because it is necessary > for updates. But as far as possible I would like to stay away from it > on production machines :-) As far as I know I have one bug remaining that needs fixing. Sometimes at shutdown time one of the metadata updates does not make it onto a disk and on the subsequent reboot the disk is not auto-assembled like it should. The other thing I really need is to make dead sure that there are no booting issues on ANY platform. Once I am passed these two issues I can move forward into the realm that is rebuilds and derivatives. > > Thanks a million for all the detailed answers once again :-))))))) > > Kind Regards > > Siju
