[Linux-cluster] ddraid?

[Brent A Nelson]

There hasn't been mention of ddraid in a while and the CVS hasn't been 
updated in about 3 months, I believe.  Has there been any further progress 
with it?

What are the risks associated with using it in its current form? If the 
lack of bad block handling is the only real concern, would the risk be 
substantially mitigated if the underlying devices are raid1, raid1+0, or 
raid5?

Has anyone tried it yet in a production environment? Any comments to 
share?

We'd really like to use this cool little tool.  Redundancy and a 
performance gain, even when across the net; what's not to like (except for 
the minor nuisance of 2^n+1 devices being required)?

Thanks,

Brent Nelson
Director of Computing
Dept. of Physics
University of Florida