On 2008-03-12, nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2008-03-11, nicodache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Now, the question is : is there any way to remotely (my box is in a >> > remote securized datacenter with double code) jump from raidframe to >> > softraid, as I've understood softraid was the future for OpenBSD ? >> >> not without foreign metadata support in softraid. >> >> as of 4.3, softraid is coming along nicely, but it doesn't have >> scrub/rebuild, it's not a full replacement for raidframe yet. >> at the moment, there are definitely situations where raidframe >> would just be able to reboot, where softraid would need manual >> intervention at the console (serial or otherwise). > > So, you advice me to stay with RaidFrame as long as softraid is not > made the default raid driver, supporting automatic rebuild, nested > raid, and all the things that make a raid driver sexy and pointless at > some level ? ^^ > > Thank you for your answer.
It's not exactly advice, just pointing out some things you need to know so you can make your own decision. Personally I used ccd rather than raidframe before (since using a non-GENERIC kernel wasn't very appealing) and I'm using softraid instead of that now, working fine for me but there have been times I've been glad I have a console server. :-)
