On 12/15/07, Richard Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, Bob La Quey wrote: > > On Dec 15, 2007 10:54 PM, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The RAID cards that I am using now don't require any host OS driver. You > >> configure it by hitting F3 during the boot process, and managing that > >> way. However, there is no way to know if a particular disk is suffering > >> degradation unless your host system has the proper driver. > >> > >> I forget the exact model number, but these are 3Ware SATA RAID cards. > >> > >> -john > > > > Back to the main issue. > > > > Why use hardware RAID at all if you decide to go with > > ZFS? Why not JBOD? Cheaper and more reliable (No RAID > > controller as a single point of failure for hardware > > RAID.) > > Except isnt that the issue, IF its not a single point of failure, and IF its > not > as much of a hack as mentioned then thats why you use RAID??? > > JOBD is fine, but its not great, I dont have ZFS experience but I do have RAID > and JOBD experience Ill take a good RAID card any day. > > Richard Reynolds > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes but ... It seems from what I read that ZFS accomplishes all of what hardware RAID does but without the hardware. So where lies the hardware RAID advantage? I still do _not_ get it. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
