| gabriel rosenkoetter on 16 Oct 2006 15:11:44 -0000 |
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On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:50:30AM -0400, Austin Murphy wrote: > By standardizing the disk data format, you don't need to have crummy > BLOBs loaded into your kernel because kernel drivers can be written to > the standard. With open kernel drivers and a fast CPU, the fakeraid > setup could outperform the 3ware setup for less money. > > What's wrong with that? One of us is confused about how the fakeraid cards in question, and I'm pretty sure it's you. How does having a faster general-purpose CPU speed up the operations of the embedded circuitry on the card where the software RAID implementation that's pretending to be hardware is actually running? In the case of actually using software RAID in the Linux kernel... the data layout is controlled by the kernel, and it reallyd doesn't matter how the disk is attached as long as it's the same disk and you tell the volume manager about it. That is, using a software volume manager to provide RAID services already resolves this data layout problem. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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