Re: Vinum and alike...

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :
> :Have you looked at RaidFrame, which is present in 5.x? I heard rumours 
> :that RaidFrame is much better than Vinum in terms of performance.
> :
> :-Maxim
>
>     Moving RaidFrame and/or Vinum to userland under DragonFly would be an
>     extremely interesting and useful project, not so much because you
>     would want to run them in userland, but in order to build and prove
>     out a userland infrastructure for DEV that is robust (e.g. survives
>     someone killing the user process!).  I should have DEV converted into
>     a message-passing subsystem early next week (it's the next thing on my
>     list!).
>
>     Such a project would make an excellent undergrad paper.  In fact, it
>     would make an excellent Grad project as well.  There are simply a ton
>     of things that could be investigated.
>
> 						-Matt

	Beware! :-)

	Last time I tried to run RaidFrame on FreeBSD 5.x, it was
	extremely unstable.  It panic'ed and done a lot of obscure
	things.  JFYI.

		-- Hiten