Subject: Re: Porting Vinum to NetBSD
To: Caffeinate The World <mochaexpress@yahoo.com>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/05/2003 09:29:40
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On Friday,  4 April 2003 at  8:52:04 -0800, Caffeinate The World wrote:
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> --- Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>> A while back there was some discussion about porting Vinum to NetBSD.
>> I'm please to announce that Atul Kabra, Ramsubramanyam and Shajid
>> Thirvuthodi of Infosys Technologies have ported Vinum to NetBSD.  I
>> have the sources, but I haven't done anything with them yet.
>
> How does Vinum compare with NetBSD's soft RAID?

We don't know yet.  That's one of the burning questions.  Some time
ago, Jason Thorpe said that RAIDframe uses a lot of CPU time.  Vinum
doesn't do that on FreeBSD, and there's no reason (yet) to expect it
to do so on NetBSD.

Greg
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