I currently have a 3500 line diff in my tree that completely rewrites softraid metadata handling. The idea is that when this goes in we can start adding foreign raid formats as sub-drivers to softraid. This also fixes issues of power failures and crashes where the checksums are no longer correct. To top it all the code is far cleaner now. I am about 95% done so hang in there.
When this change goes in old softraid metadata formats will no longer work! So now is a good time to get dumps going. I am _not_ planning on adding a metadata driver for the previous versions. I will be soliciting tests soonish to get the diff production ready so that we can officially support RAID 0 and CRYPTO for the 4.4 release. RAID 1 will continue to be experimental until I get a chance to work out the rebuild mechanics (hi henning!!). /marco On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:20:29PM -0700, Ben Calvert wrote: > On Jun 14, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Damien Miller wrote: >> >> Just to reinforce the "experimental" thing: >> >> There are some big softraid changes coming that will alter the on-disk >> metadata format (for all softraid disciplines, not just crypto). Volumes >> created with the current tools will be unreadable afterwards. In the >> meantime, we appreciate test reports but please don't complain about >> incompatibility after "cvs up". >> >> We will announce when the format has stabilised. > > I don't see a lot of changes to softraid.c since June, and am not expert > enough to tell if these would be affecting the on-disk format. > > I also don't see anything in current.html about softtraid. > > should i just hold off updating my machines? should I update weekly with > lots of dump && restore? > > I'm uncomfortable getting too far behind the curve. > > thanks, > > Ben > >> >> >> -d
