Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.1 and software RAID?

From: Michael George (george_at_mutualdata.com)
Date: 06/04/04

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    Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:08:22 -0400
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    On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:31:21PM +0200, Jerome R. Westrick wrote:
    > On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 09:14, John Andersen wrote:
    > > On Thursday 03 June 2004 21:42, Fulvio PentiuX wrote:
    >
    > YOu forgot to mention that is reads are faster from raid than from
    > non-raid... Software is smart enough to read from the disks in paralel.

    I'm pretty sure that true hardware RAID will do the same thing, will they not?

    > And that YAST supports the configuration (even instalation) on software
    > RAIDS

    True, though I've configured a 3Ware RAID 5 before and that was very easy to
    work with, too. It appears as a single disk and you just go with it. 

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