From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262098AbTL1Vqd (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:46:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262109AbTL1Vqd (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:46:33 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:15240 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262098AbTL1Vqa (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:46:30 -0500 Subject: Re: Best Low-cost IDE RAID Solution For 2.6.x? (OT?) From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Johannes Ruscheinski Cc: Joel Jaeggli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20031228213535.GA21459@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> References: <20031228180424.GA16622@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> <20031228213535.GA21459@mail-infomine.ucr.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-F/ebGGYrkF/C3/PoPhKb" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1072647938.10298.3.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:45:39 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-F/ebGGYrkF/C3/PoPhKb Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 22:35, Johannes Ruscheinski wrote: > Fisrt of all: thanks for the advice Joel! Two questions: why not use the > hardware raid capability of the Promise tx4000 and if we'd use software > raid instead, what would be the CPU overhead? be careful, almost all ata raid controllers out there are *software raid* hidden in a binary only driver. Also generally the on-disk format of these is quite unfortionate resulting in slower access than linux software raid can do... --=-F/ebGGYrkF/C3/PoPhKb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/708CxULwo51rQBIRArQgAJ0f1tjJnRZ+jTdL4PssAMSNTye/rACfcCS0 iwbWBUaJP9GgrWRRgzIjlak= =Fy23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-F/ebGGYrkF/C3/PoPhKb--