Matías,
i'll forward you mail to the linux'raid mailinglist
which is the best place you can have answers to your questions
L.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 05:12:15PM +0100, Matías Bevilacqua wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm currently working on my PFC which consists on adding support for
> a new "special" RAID0/5 algorithm to Linux. This algorithm has been
> developped by my tutor Toni Cortes at UPC University and on
> simulation boosts considerably RAID performance. We now want to
> actually obtain real benchmarks and to do so we plan to implement it
> on Linux using as a starting poing it's actual RAID support.
>
> Having said this, the actual problem I'm finding is that Linux kernel
> is much more deep & creepy than I first thought! I was wondering if
> you maybe had some code documentation on the actual Linux RAID
> support or could point me to where should I really look at.
> I'm sort of lost in the fact that raid personalities are implemented
> as modules, that is, I need RAID-0 I load RAID0 module. The problem
> is that by looking at raid0.c it doesn't look to me as though all
> partiular raid0 functionality is implemented there is it? I think
> that I need to touch the kernel too but don't know where. For
> example, one of the particularities of this new algorithm is that is
> can work with disks which have different sizes but still using all
> available space, it doesn't look to me that I can change that by just
> modifying raid0.c can I? Or for example, chainging the order in which
> disks from a raid volume are accessed... it's not clear whether that
> type of decision if built on raid0 module.
>
> As you see I'm sort of at a loss and grabbing for any type of help
> you can give me!
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> Matías Bevilacqua Trabado.
> esCERT
> UPC
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