Wojciech Puchar wrote:
gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
CB Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about
it. :-)
...and its failures? ;)
:)
for mirroring there is almost no CPU overhead so buying extra hardware
doesn't make sense at all. not
... But with a raid controller mirror you do not have to send the data twice
over the host bus.
please reread what i said. most todays RAID controllers are actually
normal controllers with BIOS with software support.
these are supported with ataraid.
there is nothing done by hardware
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote:
gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-)
Regards,
Chris
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Hello, Christian.
On 14 января 2008 г., 14:12:04 you wrote:
CB On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote:
gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
CB Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-)
...and its failures? ;)
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gmirror works too very good without any hardware :)
CB Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-)
...and its failures? ;)
:)
for mirroring there is almost no CPU overhead so buying extra hardware
doesn't make sense at all. not mentioning that most of such
This isn't really a question, just a testimonial and a thank you to the
people who make this work.
I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD
fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive
mirror. One of the drives has been sending me
I've got a Promise TX2300 SATA Raid controller that I use on my FreeBSD
fileserver at home. It uses ataraid. I've set up a simple two-drive mirror.
One of the drives has been sending me intermittent failure messages in the
nightly emails for nearly a year - no more than one or two a month.
