From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAgGh-0006KF-Gb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:01:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j813ugQZ017075; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 03:56:42 GMT Received: from melchior.nuitari.net (melchior.nuitari.net [216.75.167.113]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j813ue7B029295 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 03:56:41 GMT Received: (qmail 10006 invoked by uid 500); 31 Aug 2005 23:59:03 -0400 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Aug 2005 23:59:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:59:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Nuitari To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading to Raid In-Reply-To: <20050901034637.38BC91B8BB@localhost.comcast.net> Message-ID: References: <20050901034637.38BC91B8BB@localhost.comcast.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 4f66c681-5047-4f5b-9555-28004b90a079 X-Archives-Hash: 3ae687afba97b32683679bad7712e17a > Does anyone have experience with RAID on this Board? > Is the Via or Promise controller better for this? > Is there a good Howto on migrating from a non Raid disk to Raid? I > recall seeing one but can't find it now. > Am I wasting time and money? Should I just do a better job of backup? Is > there a resource on what to backup to allow a fast regeneration (or > duplication) of an existing gentoo system? You could also look into Linux Software RAID which I found to be so much better then motherboard dependant hardware raid as both are CPU bound, but there is no hardware costs for the Linux one... Also if your motherboard changes the Linux one is much easier to move around. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list