Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-16 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Mark Linimon wrote: But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, Must Fixeth It. Your mileage may vary. Yes it vaires. In the real world He Who Reaketh It, will hire someone who known what he is doing to fix the problem... ___

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-15 Thread Soeren Straarup
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: cut /cut I think for now the important thing is to get the people interested on this collected on a mail-alias, and for them to discuss how the can work together to make something happen. After that, try to define something closer. What about

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Lukas Ertl
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: I think the right strategy is to follow the minimalist approach now (adopt the disk(9) API, rather than having Vinum generate character devices) so that swap works on Vinum again, and so that when UFS moves to speaking GEOM there's no loss of

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lukas Ertl writes: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: I think the right strategy is to follow the minimalist approach now (adopt the disk(9) API, rather than having Vinum generate character devices) so that swap works on Vinum again, and so that when UFS

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-14 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 14 January 2004 at 22:32:32 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lukas Ertl writes: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Robert Watson wrote: I think the right strategy is to follow the minimalist approach now (adopt the disk(9) API, rather than having Vinum generate

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg 'groggy' Lehey As much as I would hate to see RF and Vinum disappar from our source tree, maybe what we need to do is to kick them both into training-camp in p4 while you and Greg look the other way. Hmm. I can't see why they have to disappear from the

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Linimon writes: But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, Must Fixeth It. If we are talking paid jobs, yes, then you can make rules like that because with the salary you control resource allocation and prioritization. My real life

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Linimon
I forgot to mention on rather important factor in this equation: Er, this is the *only* important factor. IMHO, it made most of the previous conversation be completely off-the-rails. If nothing happens, vinum is going to break even more very soon. No ... if you do a commit that changes the

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Linimon
If vinum means a lot to you, you should do something to get it above that threshold: start debugging/coding, learn to code if need be, donate money so somebody else can code if you can't do anything else. I don't use vinum so I have no stake in this. OTOH I'm not announcing changes which

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread John Hay
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:00:34AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Linimon writes: But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, Must Fixeth It. If we are talking paid jobs, yes, then you can make rules like that because with the

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Hay writes: But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, Must Fixeth It. ... In a free software project, you can take any rule like that an put it anywhere you like, in any font, size and color of your choice and it still wont work.

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mark Linimon wrote: If nothing happens, vinum is going to break even more very soon. No ... if you do a commit that changes the code assumptions upon which vinum was built, vinum will break. vinum is not going to magically break by itself. This gets back to a

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinge r writes: I'm a little bit confused. I've read Pouls mail as an suggestion to remove vinum from -current and let people modify it in the perforce repository. If I got this wrong, please tell me and everything is fine, but if I got it right, do you

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 11 January 2004 at 12:08:24 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:46:49 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [missing attribution to phk] I'd say lets kick them both into perforce and let whoever wants their hands have a go at them. For some

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: As much as I would hate to see RF and Vinum disappar from our source tree, maybe what we need to do is to kick them both into training-camp in p4 while you and Greg look the other way. Hmm. I can't see why they have to disappear from

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:46:49 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I can't see why they have to disappear from the source tree, and I don't see why Scott or I should have to look the other way. I don't know about RAIDFrame, but Vinum still works for the most part: [...]

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread David Gilbert
Poul-Henning == Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Poul-Henning In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Poul-Henning Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: Poul-Henning The reason I say this is that neither of you have the Poul-Henning time needed, and whoever picks up may have ideas, even Poul-Henning

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Miguel Mendez
David Gilbert wrote: In the p4 tree, we can easier add new talent to our developer force and I am pretty sure that some sort of merry band of developers would form around both RF and vinum there. ... now I thought I followed this list relatively well, but can someone point me at what 'p4' is? p4

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Andreas Braukmann
On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinger writes: fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from -current? My proposal is to do just that with both vinum and raidframe until one or possibly both are up to full

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Narvi
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andreas Braukmann wrote: On 01/11/04 12:13:36 +0100 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinger writes: fine, but if I got it right, do you (Greg) agree to remove it from -current? My proposal is to do just that with both vinum

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Barney Wolff
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:13:36PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alexander Leidinge r writes: I'm a little bit confused. I've read Pouls mail as an suggestion to remove vinum from -current and let people modify it in the perforce repository. If I got this

Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-11 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Narvi writes: oh yes - and please fix disklabel to support an arbirtary number of file system per a disk or slice in the process, because otherwise it will not be converting many setups. We need to move to a different labeling format because bsdlabel has a number of

Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-10 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 11 January 2004 at 0:12:57 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Long writes: 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