Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-05 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 5 May 2011 08:25:30 +0200 Henning Brauer wrote: > > I bet I'm not the only > > person using RAIDFrame close to production without realizing it's > > not even maintained code. > > if "it's not in GENERIC" is not a strong enough hint, I dunno. Actually, it's a little known fact that all

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-05 Thread roberth
On Thu, 5 May 2011 07:00:50 -0400 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > The documentation on bioctl is reasonably, and detailed, and not very > useful due to not having examples for noobs. kind of the point. the examples explain the syntax in a more readable way. the manpages encourage to understand how th

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:01 PM, roberth wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:38:46 -0700 > Tyler Morgan wrote: > >> On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: >> http://www.ec > > (plz all stop pushing that links search engine rank.) > >> I think this is mainly due to the fact that softraid can't be use

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/05/11 03:50, Olivier Cherrier wrote: ... > BTW, I setup a server with ALTROOT feature. After 3 months, the root > disk (where / lives) partially broke and the daily job screw up my > /dev/r$rootbak with the dd(1) command ... > Welcome to the world of RAID. I suspect your intent on posting

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-05 Thread Olivier Cherrier
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 01:01:27AM +0200, rob...@openbsd.pap.st wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:38:46 -0700 > Tyler Morgan wrote: > > > On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: > > http://www.ec > > (plz all stop pushing that links search engine rank.) > > > I think this is mainly due to the fa

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Henning Brauer
* Tyler Morgan [2011-05-05 00:43]: > I bet I'm not the only > person using RAIDFrame close to production without realizing it's > not even maintained code. if "it's not in GENERIC" is not a strong enough hint, I dunno. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services, http:/

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Josh Grosse
Top posting only because this phone's current Email client forces me to. I think that admonition looks like it was in regards to my post. A ">" or two are absent. The link was Tyler's, not mine. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. roberth wrote: On Wed, 04 Ma

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread roberth
On Wed, 04 May 2011 15:38:46 -0700 Tyler Morgan wrote: > On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: > http://www.ec (plz all stop pushing that links search engine rank.) > I think this is mainly due to the fact that softraid can't be used > for the root partition (or booted off of, for now). This

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Tyler Morgan
On 5/4/2011 10:04 AM, Josh Grosse wrote: I still use raid(4) -- RAIDframe -- for it's root-on-RAID capability. I eagerly await the completion of root-on-RAID with softraid(4). My thanks to Joel, Jordan, Marco, and the rest of the team developing this. I use RAIDFrame too, but it was a mistake

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2011-05-04, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I've been using the very helpful notes at > http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php, which > works, but does document needing to build a new kernel to enable > software RAID. (I included GENERIC.MP in my GENERIC.MPRAID > configuration

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:49:12PM +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > ... So see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#RAID I still use raid(4) -- RAIDframe -- for it's root-on-RAID capability. I eagerly await the completion of root-on-RAID with softraid(4). My thanks to Joel, Jordan, Marco, and

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > I've been using the very helpful notes at > http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php, which > works, but does document needing to build a new kernel to enable > software RAID. (I included GENERIC.MP in my GENERIC.MPRAI

Re: Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Henning Brauer
* Nico Kadel-Garcia [2011-05-04 14:55]: > I've been using the very helpful notes at > http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php, they are not helpful, they are 100% obsolete. you want softraid(4), which is, surprise! in GENERIC. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@open

Why does GENERIC kernel for OpenBSD 4.8 and 4.9 not support software RAID

2011-05-04 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
I've been using the very helpful notes at http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/openbsd-software-raid-howto.php, which works, but does document needing to build a new kernel to enable software RAID. (I included GENERIC.MP in my GENERIC.MPRAID configuration: it's a multi-core machine.) But I had a fascinati