From: mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HPT370 status [2.4/2.6]
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:37:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1x4quqo1gx.fsf@ford.guide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <400D72B5.40705@gmx.at>
Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at> writes:
> Jan De Luyck wrote:
>> Hello List,
>> Before I start frying my disks and all, what's the usability status
>> of the Hightpoint HPT370 ide "raid" controller on linux 2.4 and 2.6?
>
> 2.4 is fine if you use the ataraid code. mirroring is not fault
> tolerant so you would not want to use that.
Isn't fault tolerance the purpose of mirroring?
> raid-0 and jbod is ok. i am currently looking into 2.6. i will
> probably write an evms plugin for the new kernel. the nice thing is
> that it will work also for 2.4er kernels with the evms patches plus
> we get a proper mirroring solution for free. :)
The Linux md driver already does many different raid variants,
including mirroring.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-20 19:38 UTC|newest]
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2004-01-20 18:25 ` Wilfried Weissmann
2004-01-20 19:37 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-01-20 20:45 ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-20 21:10 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-21 4:35 ` Brian McGroarty
2004-01-21 8:02 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-20 21:30 ` Xavier Bestel
2004-01-20 21:16 ` Jan De Luyck
2004-01-20 10:01 Jan De Luyck
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