On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:34:36AM +0200, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:21:28PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > 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. > > With foreign raid formats, do you mean things like the metadata and raid > format of dedicated raid cards (like LSI, Intel and 3Ware cards) and > other OS's raid formats (like FreeBSD)? I must admit I find this very > interesting.
My first target will be Intel Matrix RAID. I do have toi warn that I have much more pressing projects like rebuild/RAID5/iSCSI/AoE etc. I don't think I'll implement a driver for hardware RAID cards. But don't let me stop you; in fact I encourage people to write softraid drivers. So send me diffs. If you want to support most hardware vendors implement DDF (SNIA standard). That'll get us going. I have too many projects to make time for this. > > Ciao, > Ariane
