On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 20:24, Tracy Reed <[email protected]> wrote:

> The hardware/software distinction in RAID is largely meaningless these
> days and
> mostly a matter of myth and urban legend.
>

The hardware/software distinction, in practicality, is "does the OS need to
know that it's actually doing RAID?"  Because there are a lot more failure
modes if it does, and more complex situations (as already mentioned, boot
drives are a major one).

This is not myth or urban legend.

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brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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