SJS wrote:
> That's exactly what I mean. Requiring a driver renders the "otherwise"
> clause meaningless at best, disingenuous at worst.
You have to have a kernel driver for ide, scsi, sata, sas, so why would RAID
be any different?
> You can't yank an IDE/SCSI/FC drive out and drop a hardware RAID in. You
> just get hardware acceleration for what is basically a software RAID...
You can't "yank an IDE/SCSI/FC drive out" and put in any of the others,
without also loading up a different module for the new drive. In that sense
RAID is no different. You must "yank" the old module and install the new.
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