On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 21:20, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at ieee.org> wrote: >> OK - I know you understood what you thought I said, but what you heard >> was not what I meant. :-) Will change "hardware-based RAID" "to fake >> RAID controllers without CentOS drivers". > > Forgive me if I'm not reading you right, but are you advocating using > fake-raid cards if there are Linux drivers for them? > > >From what I've seen in practice, and also from the general advice I've > seen in CentOS lists, I believe Linux RAID (based on mdadm) is > superior to any fake-raid, and should be the one we advise in the > Wiki. > > If I were to decide, I believe the Wiki article should advise against > using any kind of fake-raid and use mdadm instead. +1. I think that's what Phil meant also. Akemi