On Monday 15 October 2007 09:43:21 am Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:47:59 -0600): > > > Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 14 Oct > >> 2007 17:54:21 +0000): > > >>> listen to the various mumblings about putting RAID-controller status > >>> under sensors framework. > >> > >> What's wrong with this? Currently each RAID driver has to come up > >> with his own way of displaying the RAID status. It's like saying > >> that each network driver has to implement/display the stuff you can > >> see with ifconfig in its own way, instead of using the proper > >> network driver interface for this. > >> > > > > For the love of God, please don't use RAID as an example to support your > > argument for the sensord framework. Representing RAID state is several > > orders of magnitude more involved than representing network state. > > There are also landmines in the OpenBSD bits of RAID support that are > > best left out of FreeBSD, unless you like alienating vendors and risking > > legal action. Leave it alone. Please. I don't care what you do with > > lmsensors or cpu power settings or whatever. Leave RAID out of it. > > Talking about RAID status is not talking about alienating vendors. I > don't talk about alienating vendors and I don't intent to do. You may > not be able to display a full blown RAID status with the sensors > framework, but it allows for a generic "wors/works not" or > "OK/degraded" status display in drivers we have the source for. This > is enough for status monitoring (e.g., nagios).
As I mentioned in the thread on arch@ where people brought up objections that were apparently completely ignored, this is far from useful for RAID monitoring. For example, if my RAID is down, which disk do I need to replace? Again, all this was covered earlier and (apparently) ignored. Also, what strikes me as odd is that I didn't see this patch posted again for review this time around before it was committed. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
