On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 10:56, Chris Mauritz wrote: > However, it is not really that simple, especially when you lose a > disk or if you have to upgrade your kernel or if you want to run > a recent vintage kernel, etc. A hardware controller is substantially > more easy to setup and manage. If you have the time to spend or as > much knowledge of the subject as Jakob, then the software RAID > implementation can yield very good results too. Actually, no... A very competent friend was replacing a machine recently. For the new machine, he purchased a hardware RAID controller (I forget which one), "in order to simplify things". He spent about 10 hours trying to make it work, finally gave up, and used software RAID, and had the system going 45 minutes later. While there are good arguments for using hardware RAID, I don't believe that simplicity is one of them. (Speed, however, can be. Stupid raid5d takes up about 25% of my processors, but only when the system is under load, bleah). Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. - 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
