From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:18:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Storage options for Sun E450 / Linux? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org X-Coding-System: iso-8859-1-unix From: sean.upton@uniontrib.com Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:12:18 -0800 Is anybody using an E450 with hardware RAID controllers they would recommend? Anybody using software RAID with multiple USCSI controllers in the E450? Are the USCSI controllers that are bundled with the 8-slot backplanes that Sun sells supported by the kernel? What about the RAID controllers? Someone else made commentary about disks to use, so I'll answer the RAID bits. Currently your only option is software raid. I think it's more flexible and honestly from what I've seen, all claims about significant performance gains of hw RAID vs. sw RAID have amounting to nothing more than hot air. Moreso I've seen that hw RAID when it fails can be a pain in the ass to fix up, and in many such cases sw RAID would have allowed the partitions to be recovered. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ultralinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org