Gordon Atwood wrote:
Why should I bother with dmraid when I should just go be able to go directly
to sda-d, format them and then layer software RAID or LVM on top of that.
I can set up the four disks as individual single-disk arrays in the Promise
BIOS and away we go.
The advantage to dmraid over mdraid or lvm is that with dmraid you can
use the bios support to boot directly from the raid. Another advantage
is you can dual boot with windows on the array. With lvm or dmraid you
have to have a plain single disk boot partition to bring the system up.
If the Promise card has overhead for processing I/O it will be there
regardless of whether I go thru dmraid or mdadm or LVM. At least in the
latter configuration, I can always go out and get a real 4 port ide
card and just hook up the disks to it. Then this card can go in the
trash.
You can do this in either configuration. If you configure the drives as
a raid array using the bios/dmraid, then you can still plug them into
another controller and dmraid will happily recognize them exactly the
same way; you just won't be able to boot from the array.
Thanks much for the pointer. Interesting how no matter how hard you search,
there is always a direct thread to the info that you want that you'll
completely miss :-)
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