[CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: FakeRaid or Software Raid

Thu Dec 3 02:08:03 UTC 2009
Luke S Crawford <lsc at prgmr.com>

Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro> writes:

> and none of this options is the answer to the problem "FakeRaid or 
> Software Raid" :))


Fakeraid has all of the disadvantages of software raid plus a few of its
own.  I know of no advantages fakeraid has over software raid, so 
on linux, at least, if you can't afford a good hardware raid card, 
there is no reason to use fakeraid over just using md.