Kurt D. Starsinic on Tue, 10 Aug 1999 09:27:46 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] soft RAID


Nick R writes:
 > I should've been more specific. RAID 5.

    Because anybody who would benefit from RAID 5 can afford the
hardware, and a software solution is necessarily much slower.  I
welcome counterexamples, but please not hypothetical ones.

    - Kurt

 > >From: "Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>
 > >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
 > >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
 > >Subject: [Plug] soft RAID
 > >Date: Fri, 06 Aug 1999 16:04:12 PDT
 > >
 > >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?
 > >
 > >
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