Promise will almost certainly never release those structures, as they consider that a proprietary trade secret. I've had quite a bit of communication with them over support issues in the past relating to this nature, and they have maintained that such disclosure would undermine the technology used in their RAID engine. Again, even if you don't copy the BSD code the structures should be in there... Ditto on the Highpoint... - Stu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 1:52 PM Subject: Re: Source from FreeBSD? > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:47:25PM -0500, Ed Schernau wrote: > > Thats where it came from. > > The code is not from BSD, it cannot be due to license issues indeed. > The only thing borrowed from BSD is the on disk layout structure. > > > > the code there as reference to help speed things up a bit? Or even port > > > parts of that code? > > well it's most likely not useful since 1) BSD has a different license and 2) > BSD has quite a different structure than Linux > > For Promise the future is getting the real specs of the disk format (which > means things can be done the right way instead of guessed); Highpoint is > less likely to provide specs and that means it'll remain "educated guesses". > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
