Re: MPL-licensed LAND-5 donated s/w raid code

2000-02-03 Thread Peter Pregler
Hi, I have attached some quick bonnies I made on a 2x450PIII, 510MB memory, 2x3 IBM-DMVS18V SCSI disks (U2W-LVD/SE) on the two channels of a Adaptec AHA-394X. It is a standard 2.2.13 kernel with the raid-0.9 patches included in debian potato (August 99). No special tuning except what is written

Re: MPL-licensed LAND-5 donated s/w raid code

2000-02-02 Thread Glenn McGrath
2. We have been testing s/w RAID for more than 8 months in both SCSI and FC systems and have found some issues which we intend to fix post haste. The most significant is performance. We have yet to get s/w RAID to perform any faster than 25MB/s (according to Bonnie) in any configuration

MPL-licensed LAND-5 donated s/w raid code

2000-02-01 Thread James Manning
It's bound to get brought up here, so we might as well do it now. The release certainly seems to indicate a feeling that the current s/w raid is lacking (I think most if not all of us would dsagree at least to a large extent), so perhaps the best question(s) are: 1) Is the MPL a problem given

Re: MPL-licensed LAND-5 donated s/w raid code

2000-02-01 Thread Andy Poling
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, James Manning wrote: It's bound to get brought up here, so we might as well do it now. The release certainly seems to indicate a feeling that the current s/w raid is lacking (I think most if not all of us would dsagree at least to a large extent) Not at all. Despite

Re: MPL-licensed LAND-5 donated s/w raid code

2000-02-01 Thread Illtud Daniel
Neil Brown said: (and Andy Poling said similar) Maybe I missed something, but all I found on their download site is a bunch of perl CGI scripts that turns your web browser into a GUI interface to RAID 0.90. The README said things like "this code is buggy, insecure, and incomplete, but maybe