Re: Linux with software RAID5?

From: Lars Müller (penchopetkov_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/08/05 

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 13:35:47 +0200

>>The other alternative would be solaris 10 for x86 but in that case
>
> The other alternatives would be to use an hardware raid in a
> dedicated enclosure.

I have read much about failures of cheaper (high-end consumer class,
about $500) 3ware and other raid PCI-X cards, they don't have mirrored
cache and a bad firmware can also corrupt data.

My main qustions was, how good is the software RAID5 support in Linux
nowadays, is it up such a PCI-X card or better or worse (not talking
about performance here, but reliability only).