On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 03:30:10PM -0700, David Wilk wrote:
> I know RAIDframe is not in GENERIC, but I was wondering if anyone could
> speak to the stability and reliability of RAIDframe in 3.8. I find myself
> really wanting to use software RAID 1 and haven't had any problems in
> testing thus far.
>
> Any experiences would be good to hear.
I've used it myself. It works well - the only thing to watch out for is
that a dying drive on a IDE bus is likely to confuse the bus
sufficiently that the other drive on the bus (if there is one) goes down
as well.
The main reason RAIDframe is not in GENERIC, I seem to recall, is that
it makes the kernel quite a bit bigger for no gain in the average case.
Also note that RAIDframe is quite unstable when poked - it works well,
as long as you treat it well; but incorrect configurations tend to cause
panics.
Of course, hardware RAID is likely to be faster.
JOachim
