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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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