Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:19:31 +0000 | From | "Patrick Ale" <> | Subject | Re: [QUESTION] Sata RAID |
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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!
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