On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 COOL. There are a bunch of experts (not a word I use frequently) on this list who can answer the below questions you have about RAID. And, you can search the list for past threads about RAID. > 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? <snip sig>