Patrick Hoover wrote:
Is anyone else having issues with USB interfaced disks to implement RAID? Any thoughts on Pros / Cons for doing this?
Sounds like a very good stress test for MD. I often find servers completely hung when a disk fails, this usually happens in the IDE layer. If using USB disks circumvents the IDE layer enough, using USB disks might get rid of these hangs. Would be nice at least. Maybe I'm just dreaming. For end users, USB might remove the need to take special care of cooling in your cabinet. OTOH, most USB disk enclosures have horrible thermal properties. USB would make it a lot easier to add new disks (beyond your cabinet's capacity) and to remove old disks when/if they're no longer needed. Users might run into a bandwidth issue at some point.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
