On 05/06 09:00 , Adam Goryachev wrote: > Just to add my 0.02c worth to the discussion.... > I don't like a lot of hardware raid because they don't provide a > consistent interface to the raid status. With software raid, every > machine regardless of linux (kernel) version, distro, or libraries, they > all have identical status information in /proc/mdstat.
This is a very good point. The old Mylex RAID controllers were great in this regard; they had a tree under /proc which reported their status. I don't know if any other controller since then has done this. (Tho I believe Linus discourages the use of /proc for a lot of things now). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
