On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:37:38PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > I got into a fight this week with an Adaptec onboard RAID in an IBM > x346 server.
> Is it worth all the trouble or should I stick to Linux' own MDadm? I > think in this case I just might as well. I may lose the ability to > HotSwap if I read the web correctly, but I won't lose speed or > stability. The Linux SCSI and software RAID layer handles hotswap just fine. I did it once on a RAID0/5 array. You just have to signal Linux's SCSI layer so that it notices the change, as is described in section "Hot-swapping with SCA" of http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.2. (These were the days before udev, so this *might* have become more automatic now.) -- Lionel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
