The Doctor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:36:20 -0500:
> Seconded. It doesn't really work. You can define arrays in the > controller configuration but when you boot Gentoo it sees separate drives, > and what little RAID hardware there is on the board doesn't do anything. > You're better off with LVM over software RAID from the get-go. I'd prefer md kernel-based RAID in any case, just as I've implemented it here on a Silicon Image SATA-RAID chipset. There's firmware/kernel-dm based RAID for it, but I prefer the md-kernel-based-RAID. If a drive goes out, no big deal. However, with md-based RAID, the mobo or SilImg chip can go out as well, and all I have to do is plug the drives into any SATA standard hardware, rebuild the kernel with the appropriate SATA driver, and I'm off and running. Try /that/ with the proprietary hardware solutions! FWIW, four SATA drives, RAID-1 /boot, RAID-6 (so two-way striped, two independent parity stripes, two of the four can go down) main system, RAID-0 (4-way striped for speed and capacity, no redundancy) temporary stuff (/tmp and the like, ccache, portage tree, kernel trees, everything that's easily redownloadable or just scratch, thus redundancy not needed). -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
