On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Jeff Roberson wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > I am still intrested in improvements to fsck since I'm planning to buy > > > several systems with two 1.4TB IDE RAID5 arrays in them soon. > > > > For these types of systems doing a block caching layer with a prefetch > > that understands how many spindles there are would be a huge benefit. > > I call that layer "Vinum" or "RAIDFrame", since that's a job I > expect that code to do for me. 8-).
They are not responsible for data caching. Only informing the upper layers how many spindles they have. Software RAID should be a transform only in my opinion. There is no reason to have duplicate block caches in system memory. Cheers, Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
