[CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

To me, a storage developer and there technique is very different then  
using plain old mdadm for sw raids within a Linux distro.

I know vendors like Bluearc, Netapp, etc spin there own firmware, ie  
software but thats very very diff then mdadm within the OS.

And yes, i could do for more reading for sure.


On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:28 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> On 28/09/09 04:20, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
>> You have me there.
>>
>> I've only done perhaps 6 sw based Raids because I would only use hw
>> Raids for production data, so I sleep better at night.
>>
>> Tell me, you ever support your Frankenstein contraptions?
>
> I am not sure what h/w raid you are using - almost every major hba
> developer has had storage shaping since the last 4 - 7 years.  
> Specially
> on self contained storage setups.
>
> And yes, I totally support
> mdraid/areca/3ware/lsi/megaraid/servraid/cciss sort of solutions -  
> each
> one of them has raid migrations.
>
> my feeling is that you need to spend a bit of time and see how the
> storage world is moving these days :)
>
> - KB
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