That's an extremely good point. That alone convinces me! On 10/15/10, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: > I agree that you are almost always better off with Linux software RAID, > compared to onboard "fakeraid". Typically, Linux software RAID outperforms > those fakeraid controllers and you have easy software access to the health > of the array and you an initiate rebuilds, change drives and such fairly > easily with software RAID. The top reason for me, however, is the > portability of Linux software RAID. If you have a motherboard completely > die, you can move a Linux software RAID array to a completely different > machine, with very different hardware. You typically cannot do that with > "fakeraid". This is a very real-world issue that I've run into several > times. > > Chris > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Dave Tomlin <davetom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Just wondering if I made the right decision to use linux software raid >> vs the fakeraid controller on my motherboard. Most forums say you're >> better off with software raid. Any thoughts? >> >> Also, do you get a lot of errors in your dmesg log in Ubuntu? >> >> I get an amd64_edac error because my board doesn't support ecc. I get >> an iommu error because my board doesn't support that either. I have >> an address collision with my first PCI device, and a MMIO error from >> shpchp. Fun stuff! :). This is on two new gigabye motherboards. >> >> On 10/15/10, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu> wrote: >> > I've used Linux Software Raid very frequently on RedHat-based distros, >> but >> > not on Ubuntu, specifically. >> > >> > Do you have any specific questions or issues with software RAID? >> > >> > Chris >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Dave Tomlin <davetom...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Is anyone using software raid for Ubuntu? How many of you are using >> >> fakeraid controllers? >> >> >> >> On 10/14/10, Perkins, Jerry <je...@jperkins.us> wrote: >> >> > Dave Tomlin wrote: >> >> >> Is anyone using Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 for production servers. Seems >> >> >> like most say to go with CentOS, but I'm partial to .deb and the >> >> >> abundance of packages for Ubuntu. Thanks. >> >> > Tried Ubuntu. Nothing like Debian for the server. Also use it >> on >> >> > the laptop and desktop. Never down. >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Jerry Perkins - http://jperkins.us/ >> >> > >> >> > Are you better off today than you were 4 trillion dollars ago? >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> > Groups >> >> > "NLUG" group. >> >> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> <nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > >> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> >> "NLUG" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> <nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "NLUG" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > >> >> -- >> Sent from my mobile device >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >
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