On Thursday 15 June 2006 03:36pm, Marcel Moreaux wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:20:53PM +0200, Lourens Veen wrote: > > There's another problem: what if the card breaks? > > > > ... > > > > If the format is known, it could emulate all sorts of > > different legacy RAID cards as well. > > What about a RAID card that uses the same on-disk format as Linux' > software raid?
There is a standardized, on-disk format for raid called DDF (do a Google search for RAID DDF format). The Linux kernel just recently got support for that format, also, and will automatically recognize and utilize it. There are also several hardware controller makers talking about it. I've heard that there are some Adaptec cards already available (for like 6 months or more, perhaps) that use DDF. > You could upgrade a Linux software RAID setup to a > hardware RAID setup with minimum hassle. Also, if the card breaks, Linux > software RAID would provide you with a fallback, so you could at least > get at your data that way (permanently or temporarily). DDF has it all, and Linux has DDF, too. -- Lamont R. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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