From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262834AbVA2BPz (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:15:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262836AbVA2BPy (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:15:54 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:7813 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262834AbVA2BPg (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:15:36 -0500 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 From: Martins Krikis Date: 28 Jan 2005 20:15:04 -0500 Message-ID: <87651hdoiv.fsf@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.