Re: I vote for updated RAID and KNFSD

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:46:12 -0400

Timothy Writer wrote:
> I agree 100%. The new RAID is so much more useable than the old stuff. The
> old RAID works in as much as it's capable of mirroring your data. However,
> you have to be pretty Linux savvy (and pretty patient) to use it. I feel
> much more comfortable about installing the new RAID for someone else as most
> things are automatic and happen in the background.

My own selfish reason: I can't test 2.3.x kernels on my fileserver
because I initially installed w/ a RedHat+RAID kernel (RH6.0 stock), and
now can't do without my RAID mirror. :)

A change went into 2.3.17 marking knfsd non-experimental. Comment from
fs/Config.in:
"considering that RedHat-6.0 ships with this on, I guess it's not really
experimental"

Hopefully the same logic can be applied to the RAID patches. :) I
stress my RAID1 mirror a ton but it hasn't broken yet.

Jeff

-- 
Custom driver development	|    Never worry about theory as long
Open source programming		|    as the machinery does what it's
				|    supposed to do.  -- R. A. Heinlein


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