Maxim Sobolev <sobo...@freebsd.org> writes: > Richard Tector <richardtec...@thekeelecentre.com> writes: > > Could I also add that the removal of ataraid would affect those > > users who dual-boot with Windows and rely on the psuedo-raid > > provided by most Intel chipsets to be able to share the same pair of > > disks. > Well, this won't be a problem if we have GEOM classes that can > understand metadata created by the ATA RAID BIOS(es).
Most pseudo-raid kit has nifty features like checksum offloading, composite writes etc. which can improve performance considerably. You can't access those from GEOM. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
