All,
I started RAIDframe three years ago with the hope of bringing a proven and extensible RAID stack to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, while it was made to work pretty well on 4.x, it has never been viable on 5.x; it never survived the introduction of GEOM and removal of the old disk layer. I'm coming to the conclusion that I really don't have the time to work on it in my spare time. Also, I've seen next to zero interest in it from others, except for the occasional reminder that it doesn't work.
I still believe in it, and I still believe that it can be integrated into GEOM and become the all-singing-all-dancing raid engine for the OS. It will probably never be an LVM stack, but I've also always believed that LVM and RAID are related but separate layers. It can certainly build upon whatever LVM layer appears in GEOM. All it needs is one or two other people to share some of the work and testing with me.
I have a Work-In-Progress for converting and integrating it into GEOM on my home Perforce server. It hasn't been touched in several months and I really don't see myself being able to finish alone it in the near future. Since it's been hanging over my head for so long, I'm very, very close to just removing it and moving on. If anyone has the interest AND time available to help out with keeping it, please let me know ASAP.
Scott
I totally forgot that I imported a snapshot of my RF/GEOM changes into the Perforce server on repoman.freebsd.org back in October. It unfortunately doesn't have a full change history, but it should be enough to see where I was heading. For those without direct Perforce access, you can view the diffs here:
http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?ignore=View+change%3A&CH=40812
Those with Perforce access should look at the 'scottl-rf' branch.
Scott
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