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 4.54) id 1En4SG-0005e5-Cj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:32:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBG1VKL9000306; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:31:20 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBG1POIN028882 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:25:24 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so491837wri for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:25:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=D9LI9HqaDZQgCBP680uc0L3d5rFSwlkkaE1QszklOH7HKeFGe9h5ixMOcEC85lAcjdh61/WaY4BWReC1fFSkZM4aZKrz7Jk4YsV4417Yhm774RW5bqP8UADQPicHOz3VIJXowfd5Jk7PKlabjXx0K4zHHnGOykhOShHNOKC/vOo= Received: by 10.54.110.11 with SMTP id i11mr2962520wrc; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:25:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.69.9 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:25:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640512151725g6ed19216kc6cd89a1134c262d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:25:23 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Software RAID Advice Needed In-Reply-To: <43A20F2A.8030604@mailshack.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051215215557.84137.qmail@web53909.mail.yahoo.com> <43A1EF2B.8090009@badapple.net> <43A20F2A.8030604@mailshack.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jBG1POIN028882 X-Archives-Salt: 19a37a6c-2758-4f5b-a327-d9b286d89ff0 X-Archives-Hash: 3e6602c6f66379b4ac9d007bfcbe76ac On 12/15/05, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > I have found Linux Software RAID very useful and reliable. While > probably being beaten in the performance area by hardware > implementations, I just want to point out that when we are talking hardware here, we mean real hardware RAID...made by companies like 3-ware. The 'hardware' RAID in the NForce4 chipset (like just about all MB chips, and a lot of the cheap add-in cards) is just a BIOS helper...all of the actual RAID functions are expected to be implemented by the driver running on the CPU. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list