Chris Friesen wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID,
I wrote up a page:
http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html
Just curious...with these guys
(http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/KillerOverview.aspx) putting linux on a
PCI NIC to allow them to bypass Windows' network stack, has anyone ever
considered doing "hardware" raid by using an embedded cpu running linux
software RAID, with battery-backed memory?
It would theoretically allow you to remain feature-compatible by
downloading new kernels to your RAID card.
Yes. In fact, I have been told by several RAID chip vendors that their
customers are *strongly* demanding that their chips be able to run Linux
md (and still use whatever hardware offload features.)
So it's happening.
-hpa
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