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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com
Cc: Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>,
	"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nvidia Raid5 Failure
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 19:50:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140414195035.4adaa221@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534B7CAD.3080908@hardwarefreak.com>

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On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 01:14:05 -0500 Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
wrote:

> Better classification for the current era:
> 
> 1.  RAID controller - ASIC firmware, BBWC
> 2.  HBA w/RAID      - ASIC firmware, cache less
> 3.  Fake-RAID       - host software

Can we come up with a better adjective than "fake"?
It makes sense if you say "fake RAID controller", but people don't.  They
safe "fake RAID", which sounds like the RAID is fake, which it isn't.

How about "BIOS RAID" ??  or "host RAID" ??

NeilBrown

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-14  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-10  5:00 Nvidia Raid5 Failure peter davidson
2014-04-10  8:46 ` David Brown
2014-04-10 14:36 ` Scott D'Vileskis
2014-04-11  4:15   ` Scott D'Vileskis
2014-04-11  7:45     ` David Brown
2014-04-13 16:42   ` Drew
2014-04-14  6:14     ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-04-14  9:50       ` NeilBrown [this message]
2014-04-14 10:55         ` Stan Hoeppner
     [not found]           ` <CAK_KU4aRbK-sD6h7xqieW_D9FhBYBAy799wZHXq222DAMLjRng@mail.gmail.com>
2014-04-15  3:18             ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-04-10 11:13 peter davidson
2014-04-13 10:59 peter davidson

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