Goetz Bock wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 17 '02 at 23:36, Nathan Dornquast wrote: [snip] > > Goetz, I am interested to hear your MD RAID 1/5 - particularly how it handles > > powering off a drive while operating. Does your box spit, sputter and puke, or > > can you hotswap? > i've two of this boxes, one with a 6850 (old 3ware card) and 8 60GB > (what was top of the line when the box was build) now running in JOBD > mode with MD on top of it (it's a lot faster than native RAID5) there I > can hostswap, but's a pain. The box can go down after about 18:00, so I Why is it a pain ?? Pull out the drive, plug in a new, and then raidhotadd it to your md device. [snip] > as most people on the linux-ide-arrays list will tell you: 3ware 7xxx > are nice/fast/stable cards for RAID5 and IDE, but a version with > 64bit/66MHz would be nice. my cards are 64 bit ? Are they not 66 MHz ? I thought all 64bit cards were 66MHz. > Personaly I'm looking forward to SATA ... no more flat cables 3ware has a controller for that, with 15 disks *drool * > > I know this RAID info is off-topic. Feel free to email me directly > > ... > I first thought we're on linux-ide-array already, and than I wanted to > reply privately, but others have replied to the list already, and so did > I (what if not RAID arrays do you want to run LVM on?) oops, you are right, it is (getting) offtopic. JonB _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
