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Re: [Xen-users] SW RAID powered Xen node - knowledgeable feedback much n

To: Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] SW RAID powered Xen node - knowledgeable feedback much needed
From: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:12:46 -0500
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Jonathan Tripathy <jonnyt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have servers that use Linux's software RAID (mdadm) and it is fantastic!

yes it is!

just be sure to have good hardware (a bad chasis meant a nightmare for
me once), and cards with good dirvers.

i once had a multiport SATA card with proprietary drivers.  very fast,
very CPU efficient, very stable.... but didn't detect hot-swapped
drives.  IOW: i could change a drive while running, but to detect it,
i had to rmmod/insmod the driver.  aarrgghh!!!

-- 
Javier

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