On 23 Sep 2010, at 15:01, Lance Dryden wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 09:39, kevin wrote:
>>>> For RAID we use software RAID with LVM on top. We looked at hardware
>> raid
I've been ranting about this for ever, so here we go again. ALL RAID is software - the only question is where the software runs - on the host's CPU or on a CPU (possibly helped by an ASIC) on a dedicated controller card. And as somebody in ILUG once said to me - which are you going to trust more, the closed source software made by a small team at one company, or the open source software made by the cast of thousands which is the Linux kernel developers ?
And that's before you even go near the question of the dedicated card becoming obsolete, as previously mentioned.
Kindest regards,
Niall
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