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From: "Patrick Ale" <patrick.ale@gmail.com>
To: "Michael-Luke Jones" <jonesml@fastmail.to>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:19:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d158e1f0702240919v33182ca2qc0a15fdd27a3f96a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6C96CE3D-85F5-479D-BD44-F5DA0AE744FF@fastmail.to>

On 2/24/07, Michael-Luke Jones <jonesml@fastmail.to> wrote:
> But using 'fakeraid' (i.e. BIOS RAID) together with dmraid is
> generally discouraged in favour of using the more stable and well
> supported Linux Software RAID functionality.
>
> Michael-Luke

I think I actually used dmraid, and the problem I had in those days
was that it was just a layer over your legacy IDE drivers.

With 2.4 you had "real" drivers whom created block devices if I recall
correctly which you could really treat as disks.

If dmraid still works as it did in the days I used it it's just a
layer, like LVM, and the kernel itself doesnt care at all for the
disks being in a RAID set or not and will access the disks
independently, this I really found a reason to not use dmraid and
stick with MD devices.

And by the reactions from you guys I guess those reasons still exist :)

So MD it is,

Thanks!

Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-24 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-24 10:10 Patrick Ale
2007-02-24 15:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-02-24 17:11   ` Michael-Luke Jones
2007-02-24 17:19     ` Patrick Ale [this message]
2007-02-26  8:30       ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-26  8:37         ` Neil Brown
2007-02-28  1:51         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 13:02           ` Alan

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