On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:33:41PM +1000, Brock Lessels wrote: > i am currently running dmraid on gentoo linux. the system uses a sata > sil3114 card with 4 drives running raid01 the only issue is that the > install takes alot of fiddling and i have 6 more machines to get up > and running. > > firstly could anyone tell me if there is any performance issues using > software raid rather than the cards raid format? the linux software raid is such that it should be able to get higher performance. the raid card formats all have a "deficiency" that is caused by them raiding a whole disk not a partition, and that causes some problems that in turn can lead to slower performance. _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
