[mythtv-users] Anyone using RocketRAID?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Frosty wrote:
>
> If a linux software raid setup of 3 drives, raid5, was taken out of  
> one
> machine and placed into another, not identical machine, as long as the
> kernel supported the new hardware, would it boot?

Would it work? Yes.

Would it "boot" is another question. Booting from a software RAID  
partition can be problematical, as you need the kernel loaded to read  
the RAID array and need the RAID array to load the kernel.

Nevertheless booting Linux from a software RAID partition can be done,  
but is not suggested in most cases.

But what you suggest is one of the primary advantages to Linux  
software RAID IMHO. The fact that the OS sees the array as a single  
drive is an advantage to hardware RAID. Which is more important is a  
matter of opinion and the application.

beww