David L. Martin on Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:26:30 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nick R wrote: > A friend & I were talking about RAID & he mentioned how much a RAID card > costs ($1500-$3000 each). That got me thinking. Why hasn't or doesn't > somebody develop a software version of RAID? You'd need to duplicate the > kernel, disk drivers, and RAID on at least 2 disks, but aside from that the > rest could all be normal RAID. That kind of solution would really get people > interested in Linux. Is there some important issue that I've missed or is it > just that nobody's done this before? Linux does support this check the RAID-HOWTO. -- David L. Martin <dlmarti@njcc.com> R&D Software Engineer http://pluto.njcc.com/~dlmarti PGP: 16 C0 C0 AB 4E A2 2C 89 FF 8B 07 CF C0 72 3D 89 "If you are not planning to rob my house, then you needn't worry about my shotgun." _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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