Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:27 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:33648 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:21 -0500 Message-ID: <3C90ECDF.8EBC8FD4@ngforever.de> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:33:03 -0700 From: Thunder from the hill Organization: The LuckyNet Administration X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: Martin Eriksson Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Martin Eriksson wrote: > What is "best" on Linux 2.4.X (with any appropriate patches) ? > > HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1 ? > > And if Software RAID-1 is best of these two, where is it most stable; on an > i815 chipset, a VIA chipset (686B) or on a promise controller? > > I define "best" as: > * most stable > * least complex setup > * least hassle when something goes wrong Software RAID is just your disk configuration. But I'd recommend hardware raid because the rebuild after one disk crash is dog slow with software raid. This problem been discussed in all possible linux magazines... I prefer SCSI RAID5 Thunder -- begin-base64 755 - IyEgL3Vzci9iaW4vcGVybApteSAgICAgJHNheWluZyA9CSMgVGhlIHNjcmlw dCBvbiB0aGUgbGVmdCBpcyB0aGUgcHJvb2YKIk5lbmEgaXN0IGVpbiIgLgkj IHRoYXQgaXQgaXNuJ3QgYWxsIHRoZSB3YXkgaXQgc2VlbXMKIiB2ZXJhbHRl dGVyICIgLgkjIHRvIGJlIChlc3BlY2lhbGx5IG5vdCB3aXRoIG1lKQoiTkRX LVN0YXIuXG4iICA7CiRzYXlpbmcgPX4Kcy9ORFctU3Rhci9rYW5uXAogdW5z IHJldHRlbi9nICA7CiRzYXlpbmcgICAgICAgPX4Kcy92ZXJhbHRldGVyL2Rp XAplIExpZWJlL2c7CiRzYXlpbmcgPX5zL2Vpbi8KbnVyL2c7JHNheWluZyA9 fgpzL2lzdC9zYWd0LC9nICA7CiRzYXlpbmc9fnMvXG4vL2cKO3ByaW50Zigk c2F5aW5nKQo7cHJpbnRmKCJcbiIpOwo= ==== Extract this and see what will happen if you execute my signature. Just save it to file and do a > uudecode $file | perl - 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/