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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 07:31:01 -0400 From: "Timothy Normand Miller" <theosib@...il.com> To: "Timothy Normand Miller" <theosib@...il.com>, "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: HELP: Getting unexpected fakeraid behavior. Fix? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Joseph Fannin <jfannin@...il.com> wrote: > I don't think dmraid and mdraid *are* functionally the same. dmraid > was written as more or less a compatibilty hack, so people using > fakeRAID with its Windows-only software drivers could still > dual-boot. That could have changed somewhat while I wasn't looking, > but it doesn't sound like it has changed much. It looks like I've been bitten by misinformation on the web. > mdraid is still the only "real" Linux softRAID > implementation... though LVM also does some very RAID-like things. I''m not sure how much you would save, but it might be more compact to combine them. Complexity/size tradeoff, I guess. > Anyway, the consensus for a long time seems to be that, unless you > need to dual-boot with a Windows system using fakeRAID drivers, you > should just put the drive controller in AHCI mode and use mdraid. That may be so on LKML, but others don't seem to be so well-informed. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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