Hello,
On one of our servers I upgraded the 3x4.2G disks to 3x18G and removed
the Mylex Acceleraid 160 in favor of pure kernel (2.4.18) root raid5
(reiserfs) with a small raid1 (ext2) boot partition.
The reasons I did this:
- latest kernel's stability,
- raid code time tested,
- simpler hardware configuration,
- transferability of the disks to a non Mylex-equiped box,
- better performance?
Is there any downside going from hardware to kernel raid5? It seems to
work very well.
I even had to switch off the machine during testing because a loose PCI
card hung it: upong reboot the raid5 partition resynced itself fine. Was
I just lucky?
Thanks in advance for your insight, cheers,
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