From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Force parity resync on raid5? Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:23:25 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4119E58D.8070404@dgreaves.com> References: <4118B9A8.2040102@corp.texas.net> <16664.49686.253255.828936@cse.unsw.edu.au> <4118DBFA.6020607@corp.texas.net> <16665.33845.170965.226004@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16665.33845.170965.226004@cse.unsw.edu.au> To: Neil Brown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Brown wrote: |On Tuesday August 10, philip@corp.texas.net wrote: | |>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 @ =A3500/day (casually picked this as a v. cheap 'commercial consultant rate' - reasonable contract rate) is =A35000. 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 =A32k 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 =A310 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBGeWN8LvjTle4P1gRApKmAJ4s+gngPl8W0FGqe2HduYQnkUuSPACePFJ2 p/a2zGQLm6xr8Ya/CRaKTOc=3D =3DtWTX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html