[CentOS] Re: Recommendations for a "real RAID" 1 card on Centos box

Scott Silva wrote:
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> The software raid implementation in windows is a far cry from the linux 
> version. Windows can't boot from their "dynamic" arrays, linux can.

When did that start - or are you just looking at the non-server 
versions?  I don't have it around now, but I'm fairly sure I was able to 
take a windows 2000 server and have it clone itself to a VMware 
appliance setup that first exported an iscsi partition, then after the 
software mirroring completed, booted from it.  And unlike linux, the 
windows version was able to convert a running non-mirrored partition 
into a dynamic disk, and then mirror it.

> And 
> the raid in linux is more transparent to the software, as the linux raid 
> is just another device as far as the software is concerned. The kernel 
> keeps full isolation and control.

I don't remember seeing anything change after the disk conversion in 
windows.

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   Les Mikesell
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