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Re: software RAID: ataraid(4) vs raidframe(4) ?



On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:37:33AM +0200, Juan Romero Pardines wrote:
> 2008/9/4 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>:
> > And how do you make sure they're in sync in case of an unclean shutdown ?
> > Do you have to let the BIOS run the parity rebuild until before booting ?
> 
> With the current NetBSD driver you are never sure if data is synced,
> unless a rebuild has been issued through the BIOS management. NetBSD code
> will _only_ tell you if a component has failed... just take a look at the
> ld_ataraid.c code.

Wow, that's a serious show stopper...

        Geert



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