Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 June 2004 12:08, Michael George wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 09:14, John Andersen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 21:42, Fulvio PentiuX wrote:
> >
> > YOu forgot to mention that is reads are faster from raid than from
> > non-raid...  Software is smart enough to read from the disks in paralel.
>
> I'm pretty sure that true hardware RAID will do the same thing, will they
> not?

Yes they will.

> > And that YAST supports the configuration (even instalation) on software
> > RAIDS
>
> True, though I've configured a 3Ware RAID 5 before and that was very easy
> to work with, too.  It appears as a single disk and you just go with it.
>
> --
> -M

That's only partially true.  It appears as a single disk, but you need
special drivers for the hardware raid card.

With Software raid, it appears as a single disk  ( /dev/md0 ) and
any combination of ide/scsi drives can be built into the array.

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John Andersen