On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:32:23PM -0600, Michael L Torrie wrote: > > So for many things I think hardware RAID is not that important. Bear in > mind the one issue with software RAIDS (which ZFS does not suffer from) > is data losses due to how the OS's write caching works (and the drive's > cache too). Hardware RAIDs typically have battery-backed memory that > can store pending writes if the power fails. > > I plan on demoing ZFS, so I'll report on it after I do. >
I haven't used ZFS yet personally, but I agree that it really seems like its approach is the right way to go in the end. I'd love to see a UUG presentation on this once you've played around with it a little. :) -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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