-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:23:16PM CEST, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > if you intend to only run Linux on this box, I would personally > > recommend you consider Linux's software raid implementation instead, > > as it is much more robust. > > Unfortunately there are several failure modes that won't cover. Uou are > reliant on your BIOS being able to boot the second disk if the first > has an error - Murphy dictates it will get an error half way through > loading the kernel :) > > Still it's OK if you can handle downtime and manual intervention on a > failure. > > Unfortunately I haven't actually been able to install Linux on a JMicron > RAID-1 system which works fine with FreeBSD & Windows XP. While dmraid doesn't allow for rebuilding/useful event tracking as it stands, I would still personally choose Linux Software RAID dispite the shortcomings you mentioned. Luke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFILXTwjVefwtBjIM4RAku8AKCZj0PxT5XZLq/oNLKtfRdpcq4D+gCcDDlb oCrHP3Lg6dHtcPSVflfS1uQ= =JAU4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list mailing list Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
