On 9/22/08, Andrew Joakimsen
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Rui Santos
wrote: 3) Interoperability. With most Intel's chipsets you can hotplug your HD's. Just use the mdadm tool to remove the HD from the array, remove the HD, add a new one and rebuild your array. You can do this while your machine is in production mode. I believe you are unable to do that with a mobo pseudo-raid ?
You forgot to mention that mdadm is CRAP. I will de-sync the array for no reason and there is no way to force a rebuild. You will end up having to rebuild the array. Raid 0 & 5 will suffer full data loss.
Also, the md RAID webpage *REALLY* instills confidence: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/SoftRaid
That page is 4 years out of date, so maybe a current page will give you a little more confidence? http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page Note that it hosted by OSDL which gives me some confidence in and of itself, but I admit to using 3ware cards for my raid needs. FYI: Neil Brown (the md maintainer) is a well known kernel developer. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org