On Fri, February 9, 2007 5:03 pm, JM Ibanez wrote: > IN ESSENCE: > > * *BSD Fake raid is equivalent to Linux software RAID > * Fake raid/software RAID =/= hardware RAID > * Having a generic driver means that you're duplicating: > > a) functionality -- you have to essentially fake RAID at the > software level, even if the hardware *should* support it > b) effort -- the hardware should be handling RAID, and not the > software (at least that's the idea) > > Also having no or poor documentation means that developers are forced to > go use that generic fake raid implementation. It'll work, sure, but > generally suboptimally (YMMV though)
some openbsd developers also goes to reverse engineering some drivers and most of them has succeeded in doing this (e.g. ami), and openbsd are willing to remove some drivers that are uncooperative (e.g. aac) so still the quality of the driver in the kernel does not degrade at all. > > -- > JM Ibanez > Senior Software Engineer > Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://software.orangeandbronze.com/ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
