Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 13:06:10 EST


On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 21:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > ataraid is just driving dumb ide controllers in the way bios raid does
> I guess I meant it as a more general question than those specific devices.

Our current software MD driver doesn't support doing that in hardware.
It has the neccessary infrastructure to consider using hardware xor
engines but I doubt its every actually more efficient to do so on low
end devices.

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