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From: Martins Krikis <mkrikis@yahoo.com>
To: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, bzolnier@gmail.com,
	arjan@infradead.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29
Date: 28 Jan 2005 20:15:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87651hdoiv.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)

Version 0.1.5 of the Intel Sofware RAID driver (iswraid) is now
available for the 2.4 series kernels at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/iswraid/2.4.29-iswraid.patch.gz?download

It is an ataraid "subdriver" but uses the SCSI subsystem to find the
RAID member disks. It depends on the libata library, particularly on
either the ata_piix or the ahci driver, that enable the Serial ATA 
capabilities in ICH5/ICH6/ICH7 chipsets. More information is available
at the project's home page at http://iswraid.sourceforge.net/.

Driver documentation is included in Documentation/iswraid.txt,
which is part of the patch. The license is GPL.

The changes WRT version 0.1.4.3 are the following:
* Resource deallocation bug fixed for failed initializations.
* Read IO resubmission to mirror bug fixed.
* RAID1E (covers 4-disk RAID10) code added.
* More aggressive marking disks as bad in metadata.
* Claiming disks for RAID "feature" removed.
* Option defaults now customizable from the build configuration.
* iswraid_never_fail "feature" watered down into iswraid_resist_failing.
* iswraid_halt_degraded now prevents degraded volumes from being registered.
* Debug printouts more customizable.
* Some code cleanup and optimization.
* Documentation changes.

Please consider this driver for inclusion in the 2.4 kernel tree.

  Martins Krikis
  Storage Components Division
  Intel Massachusetts



P.S. I've CC-d directly to the potential reviewers suggested a few months ago
     by Marcelo. I'll appreciate any feedback you (and others) can provide.


             reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-29  1:15 Martins Krikis [this message]
2005-02-06  2:36 ` [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29 Jeff Garzik
2005-02-06  9:27   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 12:45     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-06 14:38       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-06 14:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 14:49         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 15:03           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-06 15:19             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-10 19:35               ` Bill Davidsen
2005-02-10 20:05                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-10 22:04                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-10 18:39                     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-10 23:28                       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-02-10 20:33                         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-11 10:46                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 15:28             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-02-06 15:50             ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-06 16:09               ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-06 16:27                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-07 16:45           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-07 18:29           ` Martins Krikis
     [not found]             ` <bc8bcc5105020711081f1de175@mail.gmail.com>
2005-02-07 19:30               ` Martins Krikis

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