From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
marc@perkel.com
Subject: Re: Linux: Why software RAID?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:25:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44ED3851.7040202@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44ED3723.3090308@nortel.com>
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> But anyway, to help answer the question of hardware vs. software RAID,
>> I wrote up a page:
>>
>> http://linux.yyz.us/why-software-raid.html
>
> Just curious...with these guys
> (http://www.bigfootnetworks.com/KillerOverview.aspx) putting linux on a
> PCI NIC to allow them to bypass Windows' network stack, has anyone ever
> considered doing "hardware" raid by using an embedded cpu running linux
> software RAID, with battery-backed memory?
>
> It would theoretically allow you to remain feature-compatible by
> downloading new kernels to your RAID card.
>
Yes. In fact, I have been told by several RAID chip vendors that their
customers are *strongly* demanding that their chips be able to run Linux
md (and still use whatever hardware offload features.)
So it's happening.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-24 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 3:34 Linux: Why software RAID? Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24 4:22 ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24 8:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24 20:08 ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24 5:20 ` Chris Friesen
2006-08-24 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-08-26 20:55 ` Dan Williams
2006-08-24 5:43 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-08-24 13:07 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-08-24 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-24 13:36 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-08-24 13:42 ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-04 17:29 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-08-24 14:55 ` Mark Lord
[not found] ` <44EDB843.2020608@perkel.com>
2006-08-24 15:21 ` Alan Cox
2006-09-04 17:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-04 17:31 ` Joel Jaeggli
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2006-08-26 3:50 linux
2006-08-26 12:18 ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)
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