David L. Martin on Fri, 6 Aug 1999 22:26:30 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] soft RAID


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.

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