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Chris Friesen wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID, >> I wrote up a page: >> >> http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html > > Just curious...with these guys > (http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/KillerOverview.aspx) putting linux on a > PCI NIC to allow them to bypass Windows' network stack, has anyone ever > considered doing "hardware" raid by using an embedded cpu running linux > software RAID, with battery-backed memory? > > It would theoretically allow you to remain feature-compatible by > downloading new kernels to your RAID card. > Yes. In fact, I have been told by several RAID chip vendors that their customers are *strongly* demanding that their chips be able to run Linux md (and still use whatever hardware offload features.) So it's happening. -hpa - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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