On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 14:53 -0600, Seann Clark wrote: > The biggest advantage with hardware RAID is you don't need to boot to > be > able to fix your RAID. Minor difference for some of your more > hardcore > computer guys, and rather trivial, but it is nice to see your RAID is > shattered prior to the kernel barfing on you. Once again, I am sure > one > of our Software RAID guys will tell me what really happens if the > raid > is dead to the kernel in a software config. The other thing I have > yet > to see is software raid being hot swappable. This is nice because if > you > are doing more than using the system as a gaming, or personal server, > you don't have to power down, replace, reboot, rebuild. I don't know, > maybe I am just lazy. Something that often seems to be forgotten in these discussions is the impact on your system response when a RAID structure is being rebuilt after a hot or cold swap. This can take hours (during which time you're still vulnerable of course) and may slow the system considerably. You need to dimension accordingly. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
