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Its a pretty good parallel. There's been a ton of discussion about it
before. Technically, its possible. Is it the right answer? Probably
not.
J.
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, John Nolan wrote:
>
> Isn't this analogous to the whole Winmodem question?
> It's possible to move the processing from the controller
> board to the main CPU, but this is generally a bad idea because
> it takes up CPU time and defeats device abstraction.
>
> Isn't there some line of Sun RAID products which uses
> software RAID 5 ? I think I remember some users complaining
> about it, but I've forgotton which product it is.
> It's not the A5000's, is it?
>
>
> > Have either of you read the Raid HOWTO? I glanced over it, and software
> > Raid 5 does indeed seem possible. As for specific examples as to when
> > software raid is more attractive than hardware raid.... the cost of
> > hardware raid (at least on sun systems) is rather large. I've been
> > in the situation where it was beter to take the performace hit and
> > have the fault tollerance than not. Price simply made hardware raid
> > a non issue.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
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