On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > I've start some work on more advance RAID implementation wich should > fit to GEOM just fine. Every RAID level will be a different GEOM class, > but with one configuration utility. All classes will share as many code as > possible to be flexible in adding new RAID levels in futher. Strategy > of choosing disks, failures handle, etc. should be also general. I want to > provide support for many on-disk metadata formats if it will be possible.
Having a 'generic' RAID GEOM with individual RAID levels in subclasses sounds like a very good idea. The basic difference would be the routine that splits up IO requests according to the RAID level. regards, le -- Lukas Ertl eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
