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| author | Nicolas Vigier <boklm@mageia.org> | 2013-04-14 13:46:12 +0000 |
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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2013-January/009043.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2013-January/009043.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..30786b0b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/2013-January/009043.html @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-discuss] Software RAID + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Software%20RAID&In-Reply-To=%3C5208839.5Zijk5H8dZ%40john.pistonbroke%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="009042.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="009039.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Software RAID</H1> + <B>John Bowden</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-discuss%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-discuss%5D%20Software%20RAID&In-Reply-To=%3C5208839.5Zijk5H8dZ%40john.pistonbroke%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Software RAID">led43john at googlemail.com + </A><BR> + <I>Thu Jan 3 14:23:39 CET 2013</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009042.html">[Mageia-discuss] Software RAID +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009039.html">[Mageia-discuss] Good work on upgrades! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9043">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9043">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9043">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9043">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>On Thursday 03 Jan 2013 13:49:35 AL13N wrote: +><i> Op woensdag 2 januari 2013 22:35:40 schreef Marja van Waes: +</I>><i> > On 02/01/13 20:54, Dick Gray wrote: +</I>><i> > > Hello, +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > I am in a quandry. When I installed Mageia 1 on my gateway +</I>><i> > > computer it recognized the BIOS software RAID and came up with the +</I>><i> > > message "Bios software RAID detected on disks/dev/sdb /dev/sda. +</I>><i> > > Activate it?" Neither Mageia 2 or Mageia 3 Beta1 recognize the BIOS +</I>><i> > > software RAID. Do I need to file this as a bug or what do I need to +</I>><i> > > do in order to install the later versions? +</I>><i> > > +</I>><i> > > Thanks, Dick Gray +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Sorry, I don't have a RAID and although I'm pretty sure I've seen a +</I>><i> > bug or forum post (or errata item?) about this or something similar, I +</I>><i> > can't look: it is bed time for me now. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Please ask such questions in the Forums or on the mageia-discuss +</I>><i> > mailing list in future. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > That increases the chance you'll get a good answer. I don't by far +</I>><i> > know everything there is to know about Mageia. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > cc'ing Mageia general discussions <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">mageia-discuss at mageia.org</A>> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > @ ml readers +</I>><i> > If you answer, please send the answer to Dick, too. +</I>><i> > Thx :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> While it does look like a bug... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> it's discouraged to use bios software raid. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> if ever the software raid mainboard fails, you will need the exact type to +</I>><i> get your data back. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> and it gives no benefit at all because it uses your cpu anyway, thus slowing +</I>><i> things down. plus, while you have access to the raid, you have access to +</I>><i> the single disk as well, thus making it possible to write to the single +</I>><i> disk and destroying your data... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> i would advise you to use linux raid instead. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> unless you have true hardware raid (quite expensive), don't use it. it's +</I>><i> only been invented because windows doesn't have software raid. +</I> ++1 To this advice. +Linux software raid is as fast if not faster than the fake raid chips found on +most mother boards these days and with the advent of multicore cpu's the hit +on your cpu's cycles is very small. if you m/board dies you can just move the +hard drives to another m/board mount the raid array and you are up and +running. +Tru hardware raid boards have room on them to install ram for catching but are +still classed as "enterprise" hardware, so very expensive. +John Bowden (Led43_???) +-- +Registered Linux user number 414240 + +Guy Faulks the only person to enter the Parliament with honest intentions and +he was going to blow them up ! + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009042.html">[Mageia-discuss] Software RAID +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009039.html">[Mageia-discuss] Good work on upgrades! +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9043">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9043">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9043">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9043">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |