Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 13:48:52 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: "Enhanced" MD code avaible for review |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > My take on things... the configuration of RAID arrays got a lot more > complex with DDF and "host RAID" in general. Association of RAID arrays > based on specific hardware controllers. Silently building RAID0+1 > stacked arrays out of non-RAID block devices the kernel presents. > Failing over when one of the drives the kernel presents does not respond. > > All that just screams "do it in userland".
Just so there is no confusion... the "failing over...in userland" thing I mention is _only_ during discovery of the root disk.
Similar code would need to go into the bootloader, for controllers that do not present the entire RAID array as a faked BIOS INT drive.
Jeff
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