[mythtv-users] RAID suggestions?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:56:57AM +0000, David Greaves wrote:
> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > A disadvantage of software RAID is that a) it's a moving target: if you
> > upgrade your kernel, your RAID drivers change,
> 
> Not so sure. Yes the drivers do change. They fix bugs, they add features. They
> don't however break backwards compatibility.

Asssuming you're lucky. 

A hardware RAID controller which is not updated *certainly* will not
break backwards compatibility.  :-)

> In fact, if you wanted to use a RAID that you built on linux 2.2 in 1999 it
> would probably still work. Even if you built it on SCSI drives, dd/copied the
> partitions to IDE drives, then SATA drives...
> That's not the kind of moving target I'd complain about.

Assuming they get it right.  I'm pai to be pessimistic, and I have no
personal experience of it.

> Whereas I'm equally sure the ISA or MCA hardware RAID card you may have used
> circa 1999 wouldn't be quite so happy in that spare PCI, sorry, PCI-X, sorry,
> PCI-E slot :)

Smartarse.

Cheers,
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