Re: Help with Fasttrack/100 Raid on Linux

[Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at>]

Wilfried Weissmann wrote:
> 
> Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > The really easy thing to do is to come up with the personality rules you
> > want to se and let me create the API.  I can make drives talk, listen,
> > dance, spin, flip, etc.....

[snip]

> Talking about the API... These should be the basic steps that we need to
> do (unordered, this is just brainstorming):
> 
> *) device_size_calculation() should use a callback of the raid level to
> get the device size. Or the code should be completly moved over to the
> <raid level>_run()'s.
> 
> *) Hide/unhide disks from the userland (this is just a cosmetic issue).
> 
> *) Shift sectors and shrink capacity of disks so that the existing raid
> levels can access the disks according to the ata-raid layout.
> 
> *) Get the configuration sector from disk. Analyse the configuration and
> setup disks and md-devices.
> 
> *) All raid pers. must be able to handle I/O that requests sectors from
> more than only one disk.
> 
> *) Partitioned raid devices must be handled somehow.

OK, partitions are already handeled!

One additional thing: I am thinking were to put the configuration
detection code. For now I will try to put it at the end of md_init().
But I still have to figure out how I can read the config sector and
start a new md.
An API interface for that would also be great! My solution can only be
an ugly work-around. md_init() just seems not to be the right function
for that.

regards,
Wilfried

PS: I do not want to flood lkml with my stuff. Should we discuss this in
private?

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