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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nitrax@giron.wox.org (Martin Eriksson)
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"?
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:53:11 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16laLf-0001br-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C90ECDF.8EBC8FD4@ngforever.de> from "Thunder from the hill" at Mar 14, 2002 11:33:03 AM

> Software RAID is just your disk configuration. But I'd recommend
> hardware raid because the rebuild after one disk crash is dog slow with
> software raid. This problem been discussed in all possible linux
> magazines...

The raid rebuild time is identical for pretty much any set up. With the
softraid its intentionally defaulting to a low fraction of I/O bandwidth
so it doesnt disrupt normal operation.

Also as far is his question goes - both are software raid

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-14 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-14 18:33 HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"? Thunder from the hill
2002-03-14 18:53 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-03-15  9:31 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-15 12:59   ` Martin Eriksson
2002-03-15 14:00     ` Ulrich Wiederhold
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15 14:52 Thunder from the hill
2002-03-15 15:29 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 16:52 ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-15 17:43   ` Alan Cox
2002-03-15 18:07     ` Luigi Genoni
2002-03-16  1:12     ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-18 19:56     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-03-13 21:20 Martin Eriksson

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