On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux > kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case. > > http://notemagnet.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-failures-areca-is-not-so.html I can't speak to this, except to point out that it is almost 18 months old, which is quite a long time in kernel development space. With the right incantation, one can call smartctl directly on a drive connected to a 3ware controller, no matter what kind of array it is in. (I believe you can even call it on a drive assigned as a hot spare.) > Any comments? With 3ware lately not looking so good from comments I have > heard on the list over the past few years performance wise, I wonder how > Adaptec and Areca look now? I've run an exclusively 3ware shop since I ditched my last aacraid machines a few years back. But with all their issues, I am definitely considering trying Areca on my next server that's not planned to be immediately mission-critical. (I wouldn't switch back to Adaptec unless I knew their interface tools, and especially their cli, had improved dramatically; the aaccli/afacli interfaces were simply atrocious.) --keith -- kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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