Scott Silva wrote:
on 7-28-2008 2:30 PM D Steward spake the following:
Re-install with software RAID1.
RAID1 is cheap as far as CPU/IO time is concerned so it works well software wise, and you get email alerts if it gets degraded!
I agree with you re. CPU load, but what about hot-swap and auto rebuilding of arrays? Does software RAID give you this?
Maybe not hot-swap yet -- I think it is in the works, but you can have hot-spares that function very well. But fakeraid doesn't do most of that either, and an ICH9 controller is fakeraid.
Scott,
I've tested hot swap and it works if the hardware says it can hot swap.
I don't know about unplugging a SATA cable while it's running and sticking in another, but you can try it on a desktop system, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
-Ross
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