Anyone using Linux LVM with cyrus?
Patrick Boutilier
boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Fri Feb 7 08:55:27 EST 2003
Hans Wilmer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
>
>
>>- Hardware IDE Raid: Most so called hardware RAID are simply software
>>RAID, because the driver from the vendor does software RAID. Those
>>driver are often binary only and they do RAID worse than the Linux MD
>>driver does it. Until you want to go with true hardware RAID like 3ware,
>>stay away from it.
>
>
> Ja, I will. For one thing, it's not an option to rely on drivers
> supplied by the vendor, as you might suddenly get stuck without any
> driver at all as soon as a kernel update or something like that is
> neccessary. Well, 3ware seems to be what most ppl recommend.
>
> For another thing, I'm very reluctant with trusting any IDE hardware
> RAID. Before building on it, I definitely want to see that it actually
> works.
>
>
We have three 3ware cards running is 3 seperate NFS boxes. They work great.
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