But it's a pity these raid controllers do not have CLI based tools integrated in the OS for manaing raid status without the needing of having to drop the kernel module.
So, suppose I would be able to buy different brand hardware, would I be better of with HP, for example? Or dell? Or...?
I would simply be like to monitor my raid sets, and get a notification when a drive goes down. So easy with software raid... :-)
It's stupid: I always bought IBM because they have supported linux for a long time, but now we're moving from suse enterprise to debian, and things suddenly become complicated...