Joe Landman wrote:
Patrick Donker wrote:
Thanks for the quick response :)
Good story. But if indeed a RAID controller is troublesome, how would
running OF on CFs solve this? To use all drives in a server for storage,
Simple. Some of the higher end (not cheap) RAID controllers aren't
supported by default in the initrd image during installation. You
have to add their drivers for correct operation.
isnt support for that particulair controller still essential? For me
Yes, but the high end raid controller you have might not have a driver
in the initrd image that gets installed. You either have to respin
the initrd for OF on the installation media or you need to build the
driver and make sure it is in the initrd on the CF card. The latter
is far easier.
only the last argument is interesting; I dont have hardware issues,
but being able to recover quickly is most certainly a good thing! But
then again, I will need to install a CF drive in my server, so I dont
know
This is trivial You can run a CF adapter from a PCI slot or from USB.
We have customers booting/running from their USB drives.
what would be 'better'; make sure that your hardware is on a HCL, and
possible avoid downtime caused by 'cheap' solutions, or recover
quickly using non-compliant H/W. ;)
Again, these are not *cheap* solutions (quite expensive actually).
High performance card support and their associated drivers are not
always in the current build of OF. Calling them "cheap" is
incorrect. As far as "non-compliant" hardware goes, not sure what you
mean.
If you aren't interested, don't bother with it. Enough people
apparently are as it has been a persistent thread on the fora and
mailing list.
Thanks for the explanation, but there no need to reply all irritated.
Who says I'm not interested, on the contrary! I find it very interesting
how people use Open Source apps. I only asked info on how to use it and
what your arguments were for developing it in the first place!
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