[mythtv-users] MythTV on Fedora 10 LVM backup/restore

Andrew Burgess aab at cichlid.com
Wed Apr 8 16:39:20 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 12:31 -0400, John Drescher wrote:

> > Incidentally, you mentioned you were trying to get BIOS RAID working.
> > Most of the time these aren't worth the trouble.  Most of them are
> > actually software RAID, implemented in the Windows driver, with some
> > minimal BIOS support for booting from the RAID array -- sometimes referred
> > to as "fakeraid."  They don't really get you anything that Linux md RAID
> > doesn't.
> >
> Anything good that is. They are significantly less reliable and will
> provide many headaches.

BIOS raids provide less features than md but at least those features
provided are implemented poorly :-)

(apologies to Woody Allen)




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