On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:50:14AM -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
Greg KH pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:34:23PM -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
Greg KH pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 07:31:40PM -0400, Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
Nothing. Can not install and boot into a desktop with either 10.3, 11 A2 or A3. RAID driver isn't detected at all in any version. software raid? You should never use hardware raid, it just is a bad idea for so many reasons... WHAT! You do realize that many people use quite reliable hardware raid controllers don't you? To blatantly tell someone that hardware raid is bad is pure hogwash, especially coming from a kernel developer. There are very reliable SATA and SCSI controllers available that provide hardware raid without problems. And I recommend that you, and everyone else, avoid them like the plague for the reasons pointed out by others already.
And I recommend that you first back up your claim with hard evidence. Until you do it is only your opinion.
{sigh} I have never said it is anything _but_ my opinion.
Software RAID can never be faster than "true" hardware RAID, it can only be as fast as the drives used.
Mind explaining how hardware raid can be faster than the drives used? And I never said it would be "faster", only more stable and actually supported by the kernel community, and probably work out much better in the end. If you don't want to believe this, fine, I'm not keeping you from going out and spending a lot of money on hardware that doesn't really offer up much benifit, it's your time and data :)
That's like saying a software modem is better than a hardware modem.
Apples to oranges? No comparison, sorry.
Linux does very good, and much faster, software raid today just fine, if you need RAID, stick with that.
Is this the part of the kernel you support and therefore have a biased opinion?
No, but I know the people who do support this portion of the kernel, and share their biased opinion because I think they know what they are talking about. let's end this thread please, it is pretty much off-topic now. thanks, greg k-h --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org