Subject: Re: comparing raid-like filesystems
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/2003 18:23:27
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:18:37PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:23:19AM +0100, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > > One of the things on my tuit queue is to port Vinum to NetBSD
> > 
> > I don't think anyone is really interested in Vinum on NetBSD
> > (obviously, I might be wrong ;)
> > RF has proven very reliable and fast enough, and I don't think
> > it's particularily useful to introduce different heavy-weight
> > software RAID implementation, with Vinum-unique set of issues.
> 
> As I understand it (but I didn't look at it much) Vinum offers more features
> than a simple RAID implementation, as extending the size of a volume
> by adding new disks. This is something we should look at.

Does that come under the heading "wedges"? 

Patrick