On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 22:20 +0200, Lourens Veen wrote: > There's another problem: what if the card breaks? You lose all your > data, unless you can find a replacement card of the exact same type, or > a different card that uses the exact same data format. An open, > FPGA-based design could alleviate that problem: you just get a newer > version, but load a different firmware that can read the old data from > your disks. If the format is known, it could emulate all sorts of > different legacy RAID cards as well.
That isn't so much a problem any more, although you do need to watch for it. Many hardware RAID vendors have published their formats and some have agreed on interoperability standards like RAID DDF. Linux disk-mapper can handle several of these formats in software. -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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