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Les Mikesell wrote:
|On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 22:21, Ow Mun Heng wrote: | |>Some ppl argue that software RAID, (not via BIOS) but via LInux Software |>RAID is a good _enough_ alternative for something like a small SMB |>server. | | |I've always considered the ability to recover the data from any |single drive on just able any other computer to be a big |plus for software RAID1 (mirrors), along with continuing to |run at full speed with a broken drive. I don't think I'd |do RAID5 in software, though.
I run both Software and Hardware raids in Fedora Core 2 & 3.
Mirror in FC2 works like a charm.
But I have RAID-5 machines in both FC2 & FC3 using 3WARE 7500-8 Escallade cards. Fedora does have some issues with these cards for some reason. I recently tried to upgrade a FC2 server to FC3 on a server that runs this card. Fedora refused to upgrade from CD so I had to use an apt-get dist-upgrade style upgrade to get the software up to core 3 levels. That is the problem with hardware RAID controllers... drivers!
Both have a place, and both work, and both have their problems.
Kevin Fries Network Administrator Hydrologic Consultants, Inc of Colorado
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