Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-21 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:07:28PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Mon, 20.04.2009 at 11:55:05 +0200, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco ever

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
there certainly are size restrictions on RAMDISK_CD. On 2009-04-19, Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all. Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame built-in in RAMDISK_CD kernels? I mean, are there any restrictions, except kernel/ramdisk size, which are not the case

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 20 April 2009 G. 11:38:19 Stuart Henderson wrote: there certainly are size restrictions on RAMDISK_CD. Sorry for stupid questions, but what those restrictions are and what is the reason for them? It's not the disk space, obviously. And if RAMDISK_CD kernel could not load into memory then this

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
off the top of my head (remembered from bumping into limits with flashboot), I think there are some restrictions imposed by ISA, and of course some small machines have limited RAM which this eats into. On 2009/04/20 11:59, Vadim Zhukov wrote: On 20 April 2009 ?. 11:38:19 Stuart Henderson

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 20 April 2009 c. 13:55:05 Henning Brauer wrote: and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco ever gets softraid upt o a usable level, read rebuild working) Hell, yes! But eventually is not till the end of

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Henning Brauer
and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco ever gets softraid upt o a usable level, read rebuild working) * Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org [2009-04-20 11:38]: off the top of my head (remembered from

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 20 April 2009 c. 14:14:18 Henning Brauer wrote: * Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com [2009-04-20 12:02]: On 20 April 2009 ?. 13:55:05 Henning Brauer wrote: and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Mon, 20.04.2009 at 11:55:05 +0200, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco ever gets softraid upt o a usable level, read rebuild working) please also

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Henning Brauer
* Toni Mueller openbsd-m...@oeko.net [2009-04-20 17:16]: Hi, On Mon, 20.04.2009 at 11:55:05 +0200, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: and in any case this is less about ramdisk size but more about raidframe which we're going to get rid off eventually (when marco ever gets

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-20 Thread Steve Shockley
On 4/20/2009 2:08 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: please also wait for in-place conversion before ripping raidframe out, so users can say something like raidctl upgrade raid0 or similar, if at all possible. muhahahahahahaha keep dreaming Not only that, but putting an upgrade utility in a release

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
Vadim Zhukov wrote: Hello all. Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame built-in in RAMDISK_CD kernels? I mean, are there any restrictions, except kernel/ramdisk size, which are not the case with RAMDISK_CD, obviously? Maybe I missed something digging through Google output