Subject: Re: Multi-layered RAID devices
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: rudolf <netbsd@eq.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 05/18/2005 10:50:40
Greg Oster wrote:
> No... the autoconfiguration bits happen in the kernel long before
> init is run. Allowing multi-layered RAID stuff for root would likely
> require teaching the bootblocks about RAID 0 sets, and that's quite a
> bit harder than supporting RAID 1 sets. (Autoconfiguration of
> multi-layer RAID sets could be done with a little work, but there
> hasn't bene a whole lot of demand for it...)
That's pity. Is it because all you guys like hardware raid better? :)
But I see that it's easy (/etc/rc.d/raidframe) to get around
autoconfiguration when I have no need to have root on m-lr.
Thanks,
r.