Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261757AbUKAL4p (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 06:56:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261760AbUKAL4o (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 06:56:44 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:44677 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261757AbUKAL4c (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 06:56:32 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Raid1 DM vs MD Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:56:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <16773.35825.194304.830001@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 154.80-202-166.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AKGeynkv9OgtxpqyZ8b5PfHrQnE= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 13 Neil Brown writes: >> Sooner or later I'l migrate from SW-Raid to a HW-Raid-Controller ... > > Many believe that that would not be a win. Personally I share that > view. HW-Raid-Controllers are not "open". md (and dm) SW-Raid is. What happened to the proposed standard for on-disk format? Didn't Adaptec also publish their format? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/