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 1Kq7cz-0004Yj-V2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:45:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4742E03E5; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28020E03E5 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so1123993uge.39 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:45:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=btuAOifglaJapZWfhkFf9UPNJvdf2cGKyGdhUa3Bg6o=; b=GCqBDRKDNqM/jWGMv4XCUdA4c4yREWkLraX3juHtyYr+Bkue4wnrDgi/atIYscPXGv qZ/T104o4QxBJBr4/q7XdEodf9p3EVDCP/fp2sTIq/6k7EsnMsBBnul7rr/udulXr86u uA2FJkdwf4Mru1P+gLM8jQKuaJdrEcISzjEms= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=JekxeFP8W0DcyKSDxdlFPtIF4eFMGESXtDB1e0xhBwdJVZ7o/R+e3bC9xRm30V7xEp H2zAQmFdoL4FpeQE/BDzxWtgfqm6UDgkf6J6kMbycCkQfHHhC0p9Umm9lOMn6w6VxUb/ YcdNnSICbQXIrZJrlCx2yWe5L+T3cyEz+raRc= Received: by 10.67.15.15 with SMTP id s15mr5580814ugi.28.1224081928296; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.92.121? (d38-15-71.commercial1.cgocable.net [72.38.15.71]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s1sm1223uge.12.2008.10.15.07.45.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48F601F4.2000202@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:45:08 -0400 From: Dan Cowsill User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) 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@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID? References: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <48F5EB5C.4020402@siemens.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig48303D7C7B7FDF29FD9BE354" X-Archives-Salt: a81f96a8-1f8e-4dd3-a3c8-8dfcc549fc17 X-Archives-Hash: 0eb0dff3440ced1cc27e128b13ffc79f This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig48303D7C7B7FDF29FD9BE354 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi guys, I've had some experience in the past with software (BIOS) RAID.=20 Obviously there would be a big performance difference with hardware vs BIOS RAID. Has anyone done any benchmarks to the effect of BIOS vs linux kernel RAID? Thanks, D Wolfgang Liebich wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought on= e > 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 > > =20 --------------enig48303D7C7B7FDF29FD9BE354 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj2AgAACgkQiSdIUo/InI0+5gCfSrw7So+9075bN6oj16S4Npbq oIIAn1D7ZbEEoIYKr/m5V3raqU1T2wQW =3r+y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig48303D7C7B7FDF29FD9BE354--