Jon Lewis wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Tim Small wrote:
The Promise cards, are cheap, but only do 66Mhz/32 bit PCI and provide
four SATA ports, so they may not be well suited to some boards.. Both
chipsets were used with libata on 2.6 kernels, with a mixture of s/w
raid5, and s/w raid1. The only slight irritation is the current lack of
smartd support (pending libata driver support).
With what distros / exactly which kernels? I've been testing a system
I'm using kernel.org 2.6.8rc2 (also used 2.6.5rc3), with libata on
Debian/Sarge (not that the distribution should matter, this is all
kernel side stuff) - both on Xeons, and Opterons, all filesystems are
ext3. I was expecting to have some hassle with these systems, but have
had none up to now (in service a few months). The revised (minor)
shortcoming list is:
. Sustained throughput not as high as the PATA based arrays (yet)
. No hot-plug support (yet)
. No smartd support (yet)
Tim.
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