hardware raid solutions?

[David Abrahams]

"Eric S. Johansson" <esj at harvee.org> writes:

> Software raid (mdX) does work well most of the time.  Unfortunately, I 
> have had failures due to crashes, power outages etc. where the raid 
> array doesn't reconstruct.  In raid 1, I was left with two discs that 
> were different but neither was obviously bad and I couldn't tell which 
> was the right one hence my move to raid five.

Ready to be depressed about raid five?

http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z

Despite http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html, I
don't think ZFS is available for linux :(

But if you can wait a few months...

http://zfs-on-fuse.blogspot.com/2006/05/announcing-zfs-on-fuselinux.html

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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