From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kq67O-0004TM-1B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98E04E0477; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mxs1.siemens.at (mxs1.siemens.at [194.138.12.131]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00C5CE0477 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:08:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at ([158.226.129.83]) by mxs1.siemens.at with ESMTP id m9FD8jl8017368 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:45 +0200 Received: from atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at ([192.168.217.3]) by vies1k7x.sie.siemens.at (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.1) with ESMTP id m9FD8jZf005494 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:45 +0200 Received: from [158.226.25.128] (atpcbygc [158.226.25.128]) by atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id F33C071D6 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:08:44 +0200 From: Wolfgang Liebich User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081008) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-purgate: clean X-purgate: This mail is considered clean X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-Ad: Checked for Spam by eleven - eXpurgate www.eXpurgate.net X-purgate-ID: 149917::081015150845-0BA2EBA0-4924DD23/0-0/0-15 X-purgate-size: 716/0 X-Archives-Salt: a002dbeb-962c-465f-bed1-06545d9e48bc X-Archives-Hash: 5a668c1493472596f10ea10178e8f40c Hi, I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. Additionally I would like to use LVM2 --- on my work PC I've grown to like the flexibility of that. The Intel DQ35JO motherboard now supports some kind of mobo based RAID. Is it better to use this HW raid, or to ignore that and use only the linux kernel's software RAID. Additionally the LVM2 utilities seem to have limited mirroring/striping capabilities of their own - I only want to use RAID levels 0 and 1 anyways -- would LVM's methods be better here? Inquiring mind wants to know! - Wolfgang Liebich