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List:       linux-poweredge
Subject:    Re: fakeraid/dmraid and PowerEdge SC440
From:       Eric Wood <eric () interplas ! com>
Date:       2006-12-20 0:50:59
Message-ID: 458888F3.6090204 () interplas ! com
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Even if your BIOS provided a RAID option, the code you would be
> using to store your data is probably tested by 0.0001% of the user
> population.  If that.  Compare that to MD or MD+LVM, which has been
> put through its paces by millions of systems all over the world.
>
>   
I've been watching the progress here all year - no much:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmraidStatus

Unfortunately, currently there's no real urgency to get dmraid going 
mainstream. 
>>> But honestly, why bother?  It's all software, so just use the
>>> production-tested Linux software RAID driver (MD).
>>>       
>> An easy life - I'd rather mirror the whole disk, than faff about  
>> matching partition sizes and mirror individual partitions. Running  
>>     

I tend to agree... I can rebuild a mirror in BIOS in my sleep because 
the menu system makes it easy.  I have to really concentrate with MD.

Hopefully, in the future there will be a common dmraid management tool 
that will let you offline/online drives within the OS -  ahem.... if it 
can be done in Windows, then.....

-eric wood

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