Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030297AbWHXFU6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030295AbWHXFU6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:58 -0400 Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:20163 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030293AbWHXFU5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:57 -0400 Message-ID: <44ED3723.3090308@nortel.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:20:35 -0600 From: "Chris Friesen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050427 Red Hat/1.7.7-1.1.3.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Linux Kernel , Linux RAID Mailing List , marc@perkel.com Subject: Re: Linux: Why software RAID? References: <44ED1E41.40606@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <44ED1E41.40606@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Aug 2006 05:20:39.0431 (UTC) FILETIME=[0994B170:01C6C73D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 22 Jeff Garzik wrote: > But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID, I > wrote up a page: > > http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html Just curious...with these guys (http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/KillerOverview.aspx) putting linux on a PCI NIC to allow them to bypass Windows' network stack, has anyone ever considered doing "hardware" raid by using an embedded cpu running linux software RAID, with battery-backed memory? It would theoretically allow you to remain feature-compatible by downloading new kernels to your RAID card. Chris - 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/