This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Thu Apr 25 16:00:37 2024 Received: from spaans.ds9a.nl (adsl-xs4all.ds9a.nl [213.84.159.51]) by kylie.puddingonline.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g8IK45X20895 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:04:06 +0200 Received: (qmail 21301 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2002 07:48:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO spaans.ds9a.nl) (3ffe:8280:10:360:202:44ff:fe2a:a1dd) by mayo.ipv6.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 18 Sep 2002 07:48:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4300 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Sep 2002 21:23:10 -0000 Received: (maildatabase); juh Received: (qmail 4657 invoked by alias); 14 Mar 2002 18:37:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 4654 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 18:37:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dipsaus.ds9a.tudelft.nl) (::ffff:10.0.0.202) by spaans.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 18:37:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 27056 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 18:37:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vger.kernel.org) (::ffff:12.107.208.194) by adsl-xs4all.ds9a.nl with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 18:37:12 -0000 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:27 -0500 Received: from moutvdom00.kundenserver.de ([195.20.224.149]:33648 "EHLO moutvdom00.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:33:21 -0500 Received: from [172.19.20.61] (helo=mrvdomng0.kundenserver.de) by moutvdom00.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 16la2C-0002RZ-00; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:33:04 +0100 Received: from p50886eb0.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.136.110.176] helo=ngforever.de) by mrvdomng0.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #2) id 16la2B-0002rH-00; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:33:04 +0100 Message-Id: <3C90ECDF.8EBC8FD4@ngforever.de> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:33:03 -0700 From: Thunder from the hill Organization: The LuckyNet Administration X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i586) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Martin Eriksson Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1, what's "best"? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK version=2.11 Lines: 42 Martin Eriksson wrote: > What is "best" on Linux 2.4.X (with any appropriate patches) ? > > HPT370 RAID-1 or Software RAID-1 ? > > And if Software RAID-1 is best of these two, where is it most stable; on an > i815 chipset, a VIA chipset (686B) or on a promise controller? > > I define "best" as: > * most stable > * least complex setup > * least hassle when something goes wrong Software RAID is just your disk configuration. But I'd recommend hardware raid because the rebuild after one disk crash is dog slow with software raid. This problem been discussed in all possible linux magazines... I prefer SCSI RAID5 Thunder -- begin-base64 755 - IyEgL3Vzci9iaW4vcGVybApteSAgICAgJHNheWluZyA9CSMgVGhlIHNjcmlw dCBvbiB0aGUgbGVmdCBpcyB0aGUgcHJvb2YKIk5lbmEgaXN0IGVpbiIgLgkj IHRoYXQgaXQgaXNuJ3QgYWxsIHRoZSB3YXkgaXQgc2VlbXMKIiB2ZXJhbHRl dGVyICIgLgkjIHRvIGJlIChlc3BlY2lhbGx5IG5vdCB3aXRoIG1lKQoiTkRX LVN0YXIuXG4iICA7CiRzYXlpbmcgPX4Kcy9ORFctU3Rhci9rYW5uXAogdW5z IHJldHRlbi9nICA7CiRzYXlpbmcgICAgICAgPX4Kcy92ZXJhbHRldGVyL2Rp XAplIExpZWJlL2c7CiRzYXlpbmcgPX5zL2Vpbi8KbnVyL2c7JHNheWluZyA9 fgpzL2lzdC9zYWd0LC9nICA7CiRzYXlpbmc9fnMvXG4vL2cKO3ByaW50Zigk c2F5aW5nKQo7cHJpbnRmKCJcbiIpOwo= ==== Extract this and see what will happen if you execute my signature. Just save it to file and do a > uudecode $file | perl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/