[mythtv-users] MythTV on Fedora 10 LVM backup/restore

[Mike Perkins]

John Drescher wrote:
>> Incidentally, you mentioned you were trying to get BIOS RAID working.
>> Most of the time these aren't worth the trouble.  Most of them are
>> actually software RAID, implemented in the Windows driver, with some
>> minimal BIOS support for booting from the RAID array -- sometimes referred
>> to as "fakeraid."  They don't really get you anything that Linux md RAID
>> doesn't.
>>
> Anything good that is. They are significantly less reliable and will
> provide many headaches.
> 
- And could cause you total loss of data if your motherboard dies, and you can't 
replace it with one that has the exact same bios with the exact same software 
revision, running on the exact same hardware chips as your old one.

Unless you're running raid purely for the performance (ie not for security), 
*don't* use the bios raid, do it in software.

-- 

Mike Perkins