Followup to: <6.0.1.1.2.20040130235924.03f39710@mail.athenet.net> By author: Nathan Lewis <nathapl@cs.okstate.edu> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > As part of my Master's thesis, I am working on adding a Reed-Solomon > personality to the existing linux RAID structure and I would like some > assistance. I'll try to keep this as brief as possible, but I apologize if > it gets long-winded. > I'm curious what... what is the intended mode of operation of your R-S personality? > > So far, I've managed to add and register a personality with md, which > involved a few minor changes to md.c and related header files, a few > changes to mdadm to allow me to access things from userland. I've > discovered the 9 functions I need to implement (make_request, run, stop, > etc), and managed to "successfully" create an md device using only stub > functions. So far so good. Just for reference, I'm using kernel 2.4.22. > I would advice you to try a 2.6 kernel instead. You might find it useful to compare raid5.c to raid6main.c in those kernels. -hpa -- PGP public key available - finger hpa@zytor.com Key fingerprint: 2047/2A960705 BA 03 D3 2C 14 A8 A8 BD 1E DF FE 69 EE 35 BD 74 "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Bahá'u'lláh Just Say No to Morden * The Shadows were defeated -- Babylon 5 is renewed!! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
