[mythtv-users] RAID suggestions?

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Wed Oct 31 15:44:23 UTC 2007


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> A disadvantage of software RAID is that a) it's a moving target: if you
> upgrade your kernel, your RAID drivers change, and b) it's in the same
> processor domain as the rest of your code -- it's next to impossible
> for a broken non-disk driver to fundamentally screw up the code running
> in a RAID card, while that's less impossible in a software RAID setup..

FYI on software raid - this just bit me in the proverbial ass:

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=444682>

Only affects you if you're running debian lenny on an x86_64 platform.

That would be me.

--Yan

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