Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:31:01 -0400 | From | "Timothy Normand Miller" <> | Subject | Re: HELP: Getting unexpected fakeraid behavior. Fix? |
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Joseph Fannin <jfannin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think dmraid and mdraid *are* functionally the same. dmraid > was written as more or less a compatibilty hack, so people using > fakeRAID with its Windows-only software drivers could still > dual-boot. That could have changed somewhat while I wasn't looking, > but it doesn't sound like it has changed much.
It looks like I've been bitten by misinformation on the web.
> mdraid is still the only "real" Linux softRAID > implementation... though LVM also does some very RAID-like things.
I''m not sure how much you would save, but it might be more compact to combine them. Complexity/size tradeoff, I guess.
> Anyway, the consensus for a long time seems to be that, unless you > need to dual-boot with a Windows system using fakeRAID drivers, you > should just put the drive controller in AHCI mode and use mdraid.
That may be so on LKML, but others don't seem to be so well-informed.
-- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project
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