Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-24 Thread Adam Kropelin
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID, I wrote up a page: http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html Generally, you want software RAID unless your PCI bus (or more rarely, your CPU) is getting saturated. With

Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-24 Thread Adam Kropelin
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:20:50PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 09:07 -0400, ysgrifennodd Adam Kropelin: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with sw RAID of course if the builder is careful to use multiple PCI cards, etc. Sw RAID over your motherboard's onboard controllers

Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

2006-01-23 Thread Adam Kropelin
Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday January 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the first try I neglected to read the directions and increased the number of devices first (which worked) and then attempted to add the physical device (which didn't work; at least not the way I intended). Thanks, this is

Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

2006-01-21 Thread Adam Kropelin
NeilBrown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In line with the principle of release early, following are 5 patches against md in 2.6.latest which implement reshaping of a raid5 array. By this I mean adding 1 or more drives to the array and then re-laying out all of the data. I've been looking forward to