Re: stability of software RAID under Linux

[Edward Schernau]

Holger Kiehl wrote:

> In my opinion Linux SW Raid is very stable. However, SW raid
> stresses SCSI to its limit and any tiny error in the hardware

As does HW Raid.  No matter how you saturate your SCSI bus,
its saturated.

> will show up very quickly. Also, not all drivers handle
> the situation when a disk dies, they hang up the bus. As far
> as I know the NCR/Symbios- and AIC7xxx-driver will not
> hang up the bus. ECC-Ram is also a must.

I wouldn't say that ECC-RAM is a must for RAID systems - if
you need it, you need it.

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