Good. I didn't know they made IDE raid which is the only reason
I tried the software raid. I'll look it up.
SNAP is IDE and they can be RAID 1 or ....
Novell's software RAID 1 will whine a little bit when you turn
the computer back on after you pull the plug but you loose little
or nothing. This has been true all the way back to 3.X, maybe
earlier.
Thanks
Bob Crandell
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:28:38PM -0800, Bob Crandell wrote:
> Question:
> Is there a mirroring solution for Linux that is reliable?
For
> example, in the middle of copying a file to the drive, pull
the
> plug. Do you loose the file? or the whole partition?
go with hardware raid, even if its a cheapo raid ide solution.
there are software raid solutions, but i wouldnt bet my job on
them. Also, i would suggest a journalling filesystem, which i
think is only ReiserFS on linux, currently.
i prefer RAID 5 (striping + parity) over mirroring, personally,
you get more bang for the buck if you have 3 or more disks in a
raid configuration. anyhow, software raid solutions are pretty
bogus, they're basically just a budget raid thingy.
For hardware scsi raid, check out AMI, Mylex, and Adaptec cards
(although make sure the adaptec card is supported under linux).
For hardware ide raid check out uhmmm promise i think they are?
or was it AMI? anyways, there were some pretty awesome performing
ide raid cards in the press awhile back and people seem to be
happy with them.
jakob
