On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:46:42PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 07:22, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > Dag-Erling, you're proposing removing it from GENERIC, because ataraid > > doesn't work nicely in the current world order. From what I looked some > > time ago ataraid isn't using GEOM to access components. AFAIR at some > > point ataraid was hidding components. Gmirror/graid3 for example opens > > all components for write+exclusive which prevents such mistakes. > > > > Anyway, if we decide to remove glabel from GENERIC, I'd at least like to > > make the consensus clear - ataraid should be changed to fit better in > > what we currently have. > > I hope changing ataraid doesn't mean removing the ability to access the > underlying devices that comprise a RAID array. > > Having this ability is quite useful as it allows you to monitor the status of > the subdisks easily (with smartmontools) as well as do things like read the > serial numbers (atacontrol cap adX), etc..
You will still be able to access them read-only, but you won't be able to open them for write. > I don't know if you can use smartctl, atacontrol, etc with graid3 as I don't > use it. Sure, all components are visible in /dev/, but you can't write to them directly. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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