Re: Force parity resync on raid5?

[David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>]

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Neil Brown wrote:

|On Tuesday August 10, philip@corp.texas.net wrote:
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|>Neil Brown wrote:
|>
|>>On Tuesday August 10, philip@corp.texas.net wrote:
|>>
|>>>Linux RAID *has* to have sort of way to force a parity resync.  If it
|>>>doesn't have one, it needs one.  That's a glaring omission to make.
|>>
|>>Well, you get what you pay for.....
|>
|>Tell me where to send the checks.  Seriously.  I know you guys work
hard
|>on this stuff and I will gladly donate to the fund to have important
(to
|>me) features implemented.
|
|Hmmm. Awkward.
|I'm not averse to doing a bit of contracting at times (taking un-paid
|leave or similar from my day job), but having a fund that people can
|donate to might be a bit more awkward...

So, given a request for a feature:
Set up a page with a rough estimate of the cost. eg, parity resync: 2
weeks effort @ £500/day (casually picked this as a v. cheap
'commercial consultant rate' - reasonable contract rate) is £5000.
Detailed estimate + design maybe a day or more at the same rate (maybe
just if anyone were to ask or mandatory if you felt you would need to
do this before committing to a feature).
You could add promise emails to the total (eg company X may promise
£2k but not until the rest has been promised up)
If you wanted to use a non-refundable paypal type account and update
the page as thankyous/donations/promises arrive, that could give
people an idea of the likely commitment elsewhere in the community -
and if you get a few £10 thankyous from home users then maybe it'll
affect your priority for stuff you'd have done at some point anyway.

And put the url in your .sig :)

Just a thought.

David

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