On Tuesday 30 April 2002 23:09, you wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:09:46PM +0100, Duncan John Fyfe wrote:
> > On 2002.04.30 14:22 Robert Davies wrote:
> > >On Monday 29 April 2002 19:44, you wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:34:48AM +0100, Robert Davies wrote:
> > >> > On Saturday 27 April 2002 11:20, you wrote:
> > >>
> I've played with the software RAID withing the kernel for some time and
> it is generally pretty stable. However, the point is that if I'm not
> using linux then obviously the RAID won't be working, which favours a
> true transparent hardware RAID system, which clearly isn't anything that
> requires support within the kernel.
But then you need a real SCSI based RAID controller, and that will suck up
with SCSI disks a large part of your budget. You also are likely to have
driver problems with them, unless it's a RAID tower concept, truly
transparent to system software, hanging off yet another SCSI card. As mixing
and changing OSes often, probably altering them, is likely to result in
corruption sometimes due to software errors, and RAID won't prevent that,
far better to spend the money on tape backup.
My comments about the IDE RAID controllers which have become more common in
the last couple of years stand, even though they're not applicable to your
original question.
Rob
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