[CentOS] RAID support in kernel?
Steve Brooks
steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Mon Jan 31 13:19:56 UTC 2011
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Les Bell wrote:
>
> Kenni Lund <kenni at kelu.dk> wrote:
>
>>>
> Fakeraid is a proprietary software RAID
> solution, so if your motherboard suddently decides to die, how will
> you then get access to your data?
> <<
>
> Obviously, you restore it from a backup. RAID is not a substitute for
> backups.
>
> Best,
>
> --- Les Bell
Hmm... What percentage of home users keep backups of their systems and
data .. not enough me thinks?
Go with Linux software raid it is very stable and as Kenni Lund states is
more portable than the software raid found on many motherboard chipsets
that aspire/claim to be hardware raid.
Steve
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