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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, 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? I'd expect this to be the reason why md offload support to xor engines and whatever turns up. It makes very little sense for a modern server/desktop CPU, but for the embedded ones it does. /Mattias Wadenstein - 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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