Hi everyone Nice overview of RAID controllers by Bryan.
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 00:05 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > NOTE: Areca's Intel X-Scale power ARC-11x0 (PCI-X) and ARC-12x0 (PCIe) > series are getting rave reviews for their RAID-5 and RAID-6 performance. > The 400+MHz X-Scale (superscalar ARM) seem to be able to handle data > transfer rates (DTRs) in excess of what the 3Ware ASIC (9500S) or IBM > PowerPC 40x (9550SX) seem to be able to handle. However, Areca is newer > and doesn't have the same track record on Linux or always work > "out-of-the-box" -- although many people like them so far (including > myself). > > There don't seem to be drivers for Areca's cards in either the mainstream kernel or RHEL4 derived kernels. Their drivers do appear to be open source though. Currently Openfiler does not ship with a development environment (i.e., no compiler, etc.) , although we have binary compatibility with RHEL4 and CentOS 4 being based on the same codebase. So unless you want to get your hands dirty with CentOS 4 and build a kernel RPM for use with Openfiler (or try using Areca's binary drivers for CentOS), I suggest against using Areca's cards for now. I have opened a ticket (#271) for its inclusion in our "unsupported" kernel. Mukund _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
