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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukasz Kosewski <lkosewsk@gmail.com>
Cc: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com>,
	htejun@gmail.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid?
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 16:52:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200510081652.35347.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <355e5e5e0510080801p88f04c7x7992c3d75f20e65c@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 08 October 2005 16:01, Lukasz Kosewski wrote:
>
> I've actually been working on implementing the core set of routines
> that will allow for hot-swapping SATA drives in Linux.  The core is
> not quite ready yet, but you can expect the next iteration within the
> week.  Once the core is integrated, someone will have to implement
> capturing hotswap events on the nForce4 SATA controller, and using the
> core functions.  I don't know how long that will take, but if the
> Linux SATA maintainer, Jeff Garzik (CCed on this email) knows how to
> do it, then it might be just a few weeks' time.

Good news! I'll be watching with great interest, and I'm sure I won't be 
alone. 

>
> That said, if you want to use this for servers you might still want to
> wait a bit before committing your resources to this :)

Yeah; I need these servers working by November, so I'll have to find another 
solution for now. But perhaps the next cluster can use your work? Hope so!

Andrew Walrond

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-08 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-07 10:11 Anybody know about nforce4 SATA II hot swapping + linux raid? Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08  7:41 ` Tejun Heo
2005-10-08 14:26   ` Molle Bestefich
2005-10-08 14:55     ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 15:01       ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-10-08 15:52         ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2005-10-08 15:23       ` Gordon Henderson
2005-10-08 16:03         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-08 16:08       ` John Stoffel
2005-10-08 16:39         ` Andrew Walrond
2005-10-15  4:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-15  5:06   ` Lajber Zoltan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-08 19:16 Allen Martin

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