Mark Schoonover wrote: >Software RAID works fine, as long as there's no problems. ROTFL -- that's geek comedy at its finest... We found that the 'data protection' features of software raid1/raid5 worked, but typically when a drive failed, the linux kernel was unable to provide useful service until it was rebooted and/or the failed drive removed. This was in the 2.4 days; things may be different now. We have since moved to 3ware hardware raid with better success in terms of continuing to provide service through a drive failure event. Dave Thompson UW-Madison