-
+
- 3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
- 3.7: "The Wizard of OS"
- 3.6: "Pond-erosa Puff (live)"
- 3.5: "CARP License" and "Redundancy must be free"
@@ -33,6 +34,186 @@
+ ++3.8: "Hackers of the Lost RAID"
++
++ +[Order OpenBSD 3.8 or other items]
+OpenBSD 3.8 CD2 track 2 is an
+uncompressed copy of this song.
+MP3 song (4:24 minutes, 8.1MB)
+OGG song (4:24 minutes, 5.6MB)
+MP3 accoustic version (4:22 minutes, 8.0MB)
+OGG accoustic version (4:22 minutes, 5.5MB)
+
+
+
+
+
+ +For a multitude of (stupid) reasons, vendors often attempt to lock +out our participation with their customers by refusing to give our +programmers sufficient documentation so that we can properly support +their devices. ++Take Adaptec for instance. Before the 3.7 release we disabled support +for the +aac(4) +Adaptec RAID driver because negotiations with the Adaptec had failed. +They refused to give us documentation. Without documentation, support +for their controller had always been poor. The driver had bugs (which +affected some users more than others) which caused crashes, and of +course there was no RAID management support. Apparently most of these +bugs are apparently because the Adaptec controllers have numerous buggy +firmware issues which require careful workarounds; without documentation +we cannot solve these issues. +
+The driver was written by an OpenBSD developer, who cribbed parts +of it from a FreeBSD driver written by an ex-Adaptec employee. But no +public documentation exists, and Adaptec has dozens of cards with +different firmware issues. All of this adds up to a very desperate +development model -- it becomes very hard for the principle of +"quality" to show its head. +
+RAID devices have two main qualities that people buy them for: +
+-
+
- Redundant +
- Repair +
+Some vendors (or like the above Adaptec case, ex-employee) have +sometimes given us some documentation so that we could write drivers, +so that their devices could support Redundancy. But these vendors have +never given us any documentation for performing Repairs. +
+Instead these vendors have tried to pass out non-free RAID management +tools. These are typically gigantic Linux binaries, or some crazy thing, that +is supposed to work through a bizzare interface in the device driver, which +we are apparently supposed to write code for without any documentation. +
+And since we refuse to accept our users being forced into depending on +vendor binaries, we have reverse engineered the management interface for +the AMI controllers. +
+There is no great "intellectual property" in this stuff, it is all +rather simple primitives. This is all that we need to implement +basic RAID management: +
-
+
- SCSI transactions on the back-side busses +
- Discovering which drives are in which volumes +
- Being able to silence the buzzer +
- Marking a new drive as a Hot-Spare +
+The AMI driver needed to support these small primitive operations. +And once we had that, we rely on something else which we know: Almost +all the RAID controllers would need the same primitives. +
+Thus armed, we were able to write a generic framework which would later +work on other vendors' RAID cards, that is, once we get documentation +or do some reverse engineering for their products. +
+But having been ignored for so long by these vendors, it is not clear when if +ever we will get around to writing that support for Adaptec RAID +controllers now. And Adaptec has gone and bought ICP Vortex, which +may mean we can never get documentation for the +gdt(4) +controllers. +The "Open Source Friendly liar" IBM owns Mylex, and Mylex has told us we +would not get documentation, either. +3Ware has lied to us and our users so many times they make politicians +look saintly. +
+Until other vendors give us documentation, if you want reliable RAID +in OpenBSD, please buy +LSI/AMI +RAID cards. And everything + +will just work. +
+And keep pestering the other vendors. +
+
++
++Narrator: +Welcome friends to the adventures of Puffiana Jones!
+
+Brought to you by the good people at OpenBSD!
+
+Whether braving jungles of wires, oceans of code, or hacking the most +treacherous of crypts, one fish fights for justice. With bravery and +morality like none other, one name rings true. Puffiana Jones, famed +hackologist and adventurer!
+
+Tracking down valuable artifacts and returning them to the public from +the steely grip of greed. Many a villain has he pummeled, many a vile +vendor has he thwarted, countless thugs, lawyers and kitties abound.
+
+Join us now in his latest adventure. Hackers of the Lost RAID!
+
+
+Marlus: +Puffy, this mission will be dangerous.
+
+Puffy: +I'm a careful guy Marlus.
+
+
+Puffy and Salmah: +They're hacking in the wrong place!
+
+
+Beluge: +You will never get the documentation Jones! Ah ha ha ha ha!
+
+Puffy: +Now you're gettin' nasty.
+
+
+Puffy: +SCSI's, why'd it have to be SCSI's?
+
+Salmah: +API's, very dangerous. You go first.
+
+
+Narrator: +Through thick and thin our hero persists, until finally, +there before him +lies the answer of the ages. How to get OpenBSD, the world's most +secure operating system, +to communicate with the lost RAID. But alas, he is foiled once again by +the evil Neozis. Again he must chase the truth. Will our hero prevail?
+
+Triumphant again! Join us next time for the continuing adventures of +Puffiana Jones!
+
+
++ 
++ +CD 2 track 2 is an audio track entitled "Hackers of the Lost RAID". +Music composed by Ty Semaka and Jonathan Lewis. +The Moxam Orchestra programmed and played by Jonathan Lewis. +Vocals and Lyrics by Ty Semaka. Drums by Charlie Bullough. +Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis of Moxam Studios. +(1-403-233-0350). +
+
+ + +
3.7: "Wizard of OS"
@@ -42,8 +223,8 @@ [Order OpenBSD 3.7 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.7 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (10:08 minutes, 18MB)
-OGG version of song (10:08 minutes, 13MB)
+MP3 song (10:08 minutes, 18MB)
+OGG song (10:08 minutes, 13MB)
@@ -188,8 +369,6 @@
Jonathan Lewis. Co-Arranged by Ty Semaka & Jonathan Lewis.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lewis at Moxam Studios
(1-403-233-0350).
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-
@@ -204,8 +383,8 @@ [Order OpenBSD 3.6 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.6 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (4:00 minutes, 7.7MB)
-OGG version of song (4:00 minutes, 5.2MB)
+MP3 song (4:00 minutes, 7.7MB)
+OGG song (4:00 minutes, 5.2MB)
@@ -368,8 +547,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.5 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.5 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this skit & song.
-MP3 version of song (5:21 minutes, 9.7MB)
-OGG version of song (5:21 minutes, 6.8MB)
+MP3 song (5:21 minutes, 9.7MB)
+OGG song (5:21 minutes, 6.8MB)
@@ -764,8 +943,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.4 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.4 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (3.5 minutes, 7.0MB)
-OGG version of song (3.5 minutes, 5.1MB)
+MP3 song (3.5 minutes, 7.0MB)
+OGG song (3.5 minutes, 5.1MB)
@@ -955,8 +1134,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.3 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.3 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (4 minutes, 7.5MB)
-OGG version of song (4 minutes, 3.3MB)
+MP3 song (4 minutes, 7.5MB)
+OGG song (4 minutes, 3.3MB)
@@ -1048,8 +1227,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.2 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.2 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (3 minutes, 2.5MB)
-OGG version of song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
+MP3 song (3 minutes, 2.5MB)
+OGG song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
@@ -1118,8 +1297,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.1 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.1 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (3 minutes, 2.9MB)
-OGG version of song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
+MP3 song (3 minutes, 2.9MB)
+OGG song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
@@ -1182,8 +1361,8 @@
[Order OpenBSD 3.0 or other items]
OpenBSD 3.0 CD2 track 2 is an
uncompressed copy of this song.
-MP3 version of song (3 minutes, 2.9MB)
-OGG version of song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
+MP3 song (3 minutes, 2.9MB)
+OGG song (3 minutes, 2.3MB)
@@ -1225,6 +1404,6 @@
Public Discussion Forum about contents of these web pages: www@openbsd.org
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$OpenBSD: lyrics.html,v 1.57 2005/04/20 12:28:43 deraadt Exp $ +
$OpenBSD: lyrics.html,v 1.58 2005/09/27 04:31:13 deraadt Exp $