Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-26 Thread Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
Furthremore , hw controller are much less feaure rich than sw raid. many different stripe sizes, stripe cache tunning On 25 Aug 2006 23:50:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hardware RAID can be (!= is) more tolerant of serious drive failures where a single drive locks

Re: [PATCH-stable16] Fix a potential NULL dereference in md/raid1

2006-08-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:28:47AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:07:12AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday August 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 09:50:13AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: patch for 2.6.16 stable series ... Thanks for

Re: Linux: Why software RAID?

2006-08-26 Thread Dan Williams
On 8/23/06, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Friesen wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID, I wrote up a page: http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html Just curious...with these guys

Newbie: Kernel panic during RAID1 test reboot loses one disk

2006-08-26 Thread James Brown
All, I'm fairly new to Linux/Debian and have been trying to configure mdadm for RAID1 with 2x120Gb IDE disks. Unfortunately, I have two problems with the configuration and would really appreciate some advice. * Problem 1: Since moving from 2.4 - 2.6 kernel, a reboot kicks one device out of