On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:00:47AM +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > On 11/23/2012 07:07 AM, Arno Wagner wrote: > > > I think you do. I also think that HW raid is a bit exotic on Linux > > these days, as SW RAID gives better features and often better > > performance. > > If you work in enterprise environment, this is definitely not true :) It depends. I have used a 12-way SAS RAID controller as dumb controller with software-RAID and have gotten better results. But that was one with Linux support that sucked. With good Linux support, that may be entirely different. On the exotic, I agree that in enterprise environments HW controllers are the norm, but I think by now that is mainly because they are simpler to use. > And for some strange reasons, cloud environments are more > and more popular where "elastic" storage means usually some > virtualized HW storage array. Ah, yes. The "cloud" stuff, where all your data turns into hot vapor. I really do not get why people think using even more complex environments that they do not even fully control is a good idea when we obviously have not even mastered simpler systems... > Also there are SSD drives which uses internally RAID0 to speed > up operations (in reality it is more independent SSD drives inside). Ok, but I think _that_ does not count, unless you know of some that expose the controller. ;-) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision. -- Bertrand Russell _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
