Linux wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Christopher Chan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And stick with md-raid 10 (also known as software raid) because it is
much more intelligently designed than any
closed-source-embedded-raid-controller.
This was valid until...quite a few years ago.
Has hardware-raid vendors open-sourced their firmware then?
So? Has the vendor of your motherboard open sourced their firmware? Do
you flash a piece of open source bios code into your motherboard's chip
if not so?
Nowadays hardware raid frightens me because of the need to have spare
raid-controllers for every hardware-raid-configuration I have. They
are neither interchangable nor easily recoverable.
You seem to have been living under a rock for the last half decade.
For each hardware-raid configuration I keep a redundant
raid-controller. In case of controller failure it's the best way to
recover my data on disks. I tried simple test cases once (yes, on the
last half decade) and most failed except simple RAID-1 configurations.
Sorry, I have never had a 3ware card fail on me during my four years at
Outblaze Ltd. and besides, other users of 3ware had just have to plug in
another card and they got all their data back. Of course, I have heard
of horror stories with other brands like Mylex which might act up on a
reboot.
md-raid 10 can be established with any number of disks (at least 3 but
better check with google)
Hmm, I think your advice must be taken with a grain of salt. Have you
actually tried to do what you suggest? In any case, I will give you the
benefit of the doubt that you just did a typo.
mdadm raid10 is neither raid 1+0 nor raid 0+1. Go check with man mdadm
or google. Each stripe is written on 2 different disks with a rolling
frame and loss of 1 disk in 3 disk configuration can be recovered
online.
OH, you were talking about that new module that is not available on
Centos 4. That is the problem these days, acronyms are not necessarily
uniform. Sorry, no experience with that particular module and I think
this should clear up a lot of misunderstanding on answering questions
about how do I make a "raid10" array during installation.
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