hardware raid solutions?

[David Abrahams]

Felipe Figueiredo <philsf at ufrj.br> writes:

> On Saturday 08 July 2006 21:31, David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:
>> > I need a relatively low-cost hardware raid solution (not pseudo
>> > hardware) so I can implement raid five on the root and boot
>> > partitions. For a variety of reasons, I would take quite a bit of
>> > convincing to use software raid for this application.
>>
>> Considering the trouble I've been having getting a bootable dmraid/LVM
>> setup going (weeks of pain, no gain) I think that's a good choice.
>>
>> Does anyone happen to know if hardware RAID is easier to configure
>> than software RAID?
>
> What kind of problem did you have setting software raid? You used mdadm or 
> raidtools?

So far, I'm "using" dmraid because I wasn't ready to close off the
possibility of dual-booting into Windows.

dmraid+LVM seems to be something everybody wants, but only few have
achieved.

  (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ataraid/1989/focus=1989)
  (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ataraid/1990/focus=85860)


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