[mythtv-users] Question on software RAID

[D Banerjee]

Software raid-5 isn't your problem. You just had problems _period_
I'd even say that you never had an "operational" setup in the first place.
If you're running on the same system, it's possible you still have the same
problems but have moved the symptoms elsewhere.

>I rebuilt my software array many times, often without experiencing a
>verifiable hardware failure. With no predictable pattern, I would get
broken
>ext2 filesystems requiring hours to fsck, and sometimes worse. I always
>chalked this up to "soft" hardware glitches and cheap drives until I moved
my
>software RAID5 to hardware RAID5. The difference has been very noticeable.
>For example, downloading CD ISO image files via ftp to my software array
used
>to be difficult, the MD5 sums would often not match, requiring several
>downloads before I got a correct file. It had the "feel" of an error rate
of
>1 bit per half-gigabyte, and I always assumed that the ftp process was the
>culprit.