Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-11 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Greg Lehey wrote: > >> These "cheap controllers" don't have any algorithms at all to speak of; > >> they're just ATA controllers with BIOS code that supposedly understands > >> striping/mirroring. > > > > There is no algorithm to speak of involved with striping, and just > > a little more

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-11 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 11 November 2001 at 9:33:56 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Mike Smith wrote: >>> Agreed. I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters. Most >>> of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms. Note >>> that I said "guess", though. In my language, that

Re: Found some unnecessary code

2001-11-11 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Found some unnecessary code in FreeBSD 4.4-stable VM. : :File vm_page.c, in function vm_page_startup(), vm_page :bucket is :zeroed two times, this is unnecessary. : :--- vm_page.c Sun Nov 11 15:34:41 2001 :+++ vm_page.c.orig Sun Nov 11 15:34:21 2001 :@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ : vaddr = round_page(

Re: HPT370 RAID or Vinum?

2001-11-11 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: > > Agreed. I don't think the RAIDs will have the same parameters. Most > > of these cheap controllers have fairly simplistic algorithms. Note > > that I said "guess", though. In my language, that means "don't know > > for sure". I'd really like to see some objectiv