Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>>A problem with hardware raid is that if your raidcontroller dies, you >>need exactly the same controller to get your array to work again. >> >> > >your point is valid. :) >that said, I haven't had a real problem with 3ware controllers dying. >(Promise Supertraks are another matter, but perhaps the bugs have been >sorted out by now). > > We had problem with both Supertraks and 3ware controllers. The Supertrak problems may be related to using ide disks while the 3ware problems were (unfortunately not quite) DOA. Furthermore, I find the setup with raid controllers tedious: The modules often don't come with the distro and more often than not they do not load at boot forcing me to tweak /etc/rc.local. Anyway based on theses experiences I will only uses software raid unless we really need every CPU cycles. That said, I fortunately do not have a lot of experience with having to recover from software raid: up until now I only once had one software raid-5 go critical. Re Khaled Hussain issues: Linux can boot from raid-1. So you could chop off a partition from sdb for / and put swap on sdc. Another approach is to have alternative installation on a partition on sdb. This can be quite convenient for upgrades and error recovery. My 2 cc. ... Matt ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
