Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-24 01.39, Matthew Dempsky wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Never used ccd(4) so can't comment on that, but RAIDframe (raid(4)) has a

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Joel Sing
On Friday 24 June 2011, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: I use neither but know people claim to be using one or the other, but mostly raid(4), a.k.a. raidframe. Then it sounds like the solution is to subtly break

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Is softraid ready at all? I thought it was experimental, under

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Thordur Bjornsson
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 03:38:48PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development.

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Joel Sing
On Saturday 25 June 2011, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Is softraid ready

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Joel Sing
On Friday 24 June 2011, Benny Lofgren wrote: On 2011-06-24 01.39, Matthew Dempsky wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Never used ccd(4) so can't

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-24 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-06-24 18.46, Joel Sing wrote: On Friday 24 June 2011, Benny Lofgren wrote: On 2011-06-24 01.39, Matthew Dempsky wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active

Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Dempsky
What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Are there any users still using ccd(4) and/or raid(4) and unable to upgrade to softraid(4)? Will anyone be up a creek if

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-23 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:39:19PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development. Are there any users still using ccd(4) and/or raid(4)

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Dempsky
[+misc@, for users not subscribed to tech@] On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Matthew Dempsky matt...@dempsky.org wrote: What should be done about ccd(4) and raid(4)? They both seem superseded in functionality by softraid(4), which also has much more developer interest and active development.

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-23 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: I use neither but know people claim to be using one or the other, but mostly raid(4), a.k.a. raidframe. Then it sounds like the solution is to subtly break them so we can smoke out these claimed users! ;) In

Re: Future of ccd(4) and raid(4)?

2011-06-23 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:44:52PM -0700, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Kenneth R Westerback kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote: I use neither but know people claim to be using one or the other, but mostly raid(4), a.k.a. raidframe. Then it sounds like the solution is