Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
> What this comes down to is that I don't know if the Knoppix installer can
> handle software RAID. I do my best to avoid software RAID; it's too much
> pain when things go wrong, in my experience. 3ware is the only way to go for
> RAID. These are special circumstances tho -- where one wants to be able to
> deliberately break the RAID mirror and run on one drive.
I've never seen anything go wrong with Linux RAID1 over 6 or so years
and dozens of machines and I've abused it with things like hot swapping
SCA drives and rebuilding the replacement, cloning machines by splitting
the pair and letting both rebuild a new mirror, and using a 3-member set
with one normally missing for my backuppc archive. What kind of
problems have you seen?
> I do realize that this is more expensive and less convenient than software
> RAID in theory; but I have had entirely too many bad experiences with
> software RAID and I far prefer the speed and manageability of 3ware hardware
> RAID. So I'm just throwing that idea out for discussion.
The discussion would be more meaningful if you can give examples of the
problems you have with software raid1 - perhaps there are ways to avoid
them. For me, being able to use any single drive on any controller that
can operate it to recover the data is a big win. Plus, of course, the
ability to use external firewire/usb drives as members.
--
Les Mikesell
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