On 05/06 09:00 , Adam Goryachev wrote:
> Just to add my 0.02c worth to the discussion....
> I don't like a lot of hardware raid because they don't provide a
> consistent interface to the raid status. With software raid, every
> machine regardless of linux (kernel) version, distro, or libraries, they
> all have identical status information in /proc/mdstat.

This is a very good point. The old Mylex RAID controllers were great in this
regard; they had a tree under /proc which reported their status. I don't
know if any other controller since then has done this. (Tho I believe Linus
discourages the use of /proc for a lot of things now).

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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