On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:18:42PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.) RAID that
> > is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software
> > implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID
> > config
RAID implementations (and most of the cheaper add-on RAID cards.) RAID that
is supported in the BIOS have one advantage over other software
implementations, and that is that you can boot from all supported RAID
configurations, which is not always the case otherwise.
always - if you use software
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:58:04PM -0500, B. Cook wrote:
> I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play
> with.
>
> It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid.
>
> I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid..
You are assuming wrong. It is sof
If your are just going to "play with it", the play as much as you want
with ZFS.
But, if you are going to setup something that will have to go on
production some day, at least at this moment i wouldn't recommend you ZFS.
I've used it for a backup server, and due to power failures in the
buil