On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>wrote: > Eduardo: To give you something else to consider, as an alternative: I > believe there was a long thread here, awhile back, about using > Software RAID, instead of fake RAID controllers. Software RAID works > very well, as I recall from reading that thread. Possibly look into > changing to Software RAID. Depends on the HW RAID controller. Yes, I finally ended up installing software RAID because 1) I have read that, even if I installed the proper driver, Linux only uses it to configure its own dm software RAID device according to the BIOS conf-- is this completely true? If yes, no real offloading anything to hardware anyway-- even under Windows; does anybody know about this for sure? 2) I am very scared by non-kernel-tree-blessed modules which have their own install procedures and/or updating schedule, I have been bitten by this in the past. I finally did setup two 1-RAIDed identical partitions and installed the system on the rest of both disks... Now my system won't boot if one disk is broken, but I hope I can go rescue into the data. I was formerly hoping to rely on RAID to protect the full install and simplify my life, but I was discouraged away by 1) and 2). I have yet to see a real RAID controller... At what price do they start off? -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080729/31d763d7/attachment-0003.html>