For the average user it's easier to do hardware though more expensive. In linux you see a hardware RAID setup as one drive. SoftRAID and LVM are for experienced users. 3Ware even offers their management tools for linux and BSD.
Having a seperate boot drive for the OS means if the user gets frustrated with a particular distro or breaks their system they don't have to worry about what's sitting on the RAID array. It'd be like discussing the merits of Ext3, JFS, Reiser, and XFS. Personally, I stick with Ext3 "just because" I know it'll work with ease on any distribution. Sure, other filesystems are more robust but I'll take the penalty. -- notanatheist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ notanatheist's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23716 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
