On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 11:30:24AM -0800, Micah Anderson wrote: > I thought recovery/resync takes quite a bit of CPU overhead until it > is finished? Even though this will be a SCSI system and a SCSI > controller will be needed, and this will only be RAID 0 or 0+1 (can > software RAID even do RAID 10 or 0+1? I don't know if it can), Oh yea it can. Been running it on a box here for well over a year (two perhaps?) and it's been working great. > I think > that there is still some overhead incurred on the system by running > software raid, perhaps it is slight, but on a system that is going to > be a database server and needs to be as quick as possible, slimming > down and trimming out the excess is always a good thing. Well, sure there's some miniscule effect on the CPU. But really, is some negligible percent of CPU time worth the cost of a hardware RAID system? Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
