From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3ware escalade vs software raid, from a different jeff
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:32:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4034ACC2.7090909@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xd68b5kwd.fsf@ford.guide>
Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de> writes:
>
>
>>In my opinion no. Most of the cheaper hardware raids are really just
>>software raid solutions. For the more expansive once always remember
>>you will always need drivers and there is no guarentee that you
>>will get them in two or three years. Some vendors do no longer exist
>>or no longer support that product.
>
>
> Wasn't there some talk recently about standardizing the on-disk
> format for both hardware and software RAID?
It's happening.
"SNIA" has created an on-disk format "DDF", which both software and
hardware RAID vendors have pretty much all agreed to use.
Of course, the spec is not public yet, so who knows what they have
agreed to...
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-18 21:48 3ware escalade vs software raid, from a different jeff Rev. Jeffrey Paul
2004-02-18 22:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-19 11:49 ` Holger Kiehl
2004-02-19 12:06 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2004-02-19 17:56 ` Rev. Jeffrey Paul
2004-02-19 19:58 ` Michael
2004-02-19 20:18 ` Ricky Beam
2004-02-19 22:04 ` Scsi adapters and software raid Bob Hillegas
2004-02-20 0:33 ` Kanoa Withington
2004-02-20 4:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-19 22:33 ` 3ware escalade vs software raid, from a different jeff Scott Long
2004-02-19 23:52 ` Guy
2004-02-19 22:29 ` Scott Long
2004-02-20 4:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-20 4:40 ` Scott Long
2004-02-20 0:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-20 7:19 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
2004-02-19 12:11 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Holger Kiehl
2004-02-19 12:32 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-23 22:23 Jeff Gray
2004-02-24 8:06 ` Holger Kiehl
2004-02-24 14:16 ` Joshua Baker-LePain
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