exactly. I'm using blades with no hardware raid controller. software raid that worked just like hardware raid would be the best solution until we get better hardware.
On 6/16/05, mdff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > responding 2 nick: > > > WHY do you want to mirror root? > > i do not like software raid at all and i even more dislike > ide-raid (regardless whether it's sw or any other hw-raid). > but sometimes you use hw where an hw-raid is not supported > (even if there's a controller on-board...) and that's my > reason for trying and using sw-raid like raidframe because > it is better than nothing... > really talking 'bout raid1 like i want it to be: having redundant > power, redundant disks w hotplug, scsi320 at least and a good > raid-controller-hw with a really smart bios handling any problems... > > i totally agree with you that scsi-hw-raid w hotplug support > is definitely what you want on any production server. > but if it comes to a development server or anything you just > test on, you'd want to mirror root also, because you don't > have to take care for your "2nd chance". you just throw the > damn bad ide-hdd out of the window and the other one would > bring up your system again like it was 10 minutes (add time for > hangup, shutdown and some coffee) ago.
