On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Carlos E. R. wrote:
We were comparing capabilities and features, and in that context I say that there is a substantial perfomance difference. I don't have figures or links at hand, but I have seen them.
We are not talking about what you or I need :-) I can't pay it, anyway...
Greg just said that the CPU time required for a simple 2-disk mirror is only minimal. Such unquantified statements do just not mean anything. If you're talking about a 6-disk raid 5 perhaps it is going to matter, you know? I just don't know. But I'm not going to look up data because just you are not doing it :p. You are the one making the statements, then back it up. I can't pay it either. I did have a look at real hardware cards in the past, but it was rather outrageously expesive, from what I remember. Software Linux is just perfect except for the software that isn't there :p. mdadm or whatever the tool is called is not *exactly* the most user friendly thing is existence. The only thing I have remembered thus far is to do cat /proc/mdraid or something to see some rather unintelligeble output of the activated raid things. the debian setup tool was nice but it ended there. i have since managed to add another array manually but I have long since forgotten how i did it. I mean another array based on identical partitions that I created. I just wanted my boot partition to be in mirror also :). Because that made it easier to mount the thing at startup. Doesn't work if you have multiple partitions. With mirror raid, it is just one partitions (logically). I just wish.... there was a tooll....... that would actually make life a lot easier. It probably exists, but it is like all those things: you don't come across it by itself. You always have to really start searching explicitly and often lenghtily. It is just not easy to find something you can use, and everything you try also requires a lengthy investment of time. Trying software is not easy. Not also when they are command line tools or whatever, the usability is often "far to seek" as we say in D. I have seriously not come across more than 1 (ONE) (ONE!!!) ncurses application that I like. Guess what it is. Perhaps you already know it. What or which is the one ncurses menu-style blue-interface-with-white-lines application on Linux that is just awesome? Apart from make menuconfig I guess. So I can just say that at present, I am at a loss of how to manage my raid. I barely know what to do in case of failure. Yes, SEARCH THE WEB. Great, awesome. We are all awesome. Bye. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org