Re: RAID-1 to RAID-5 online migration?

["Jason Lim" <maillist@jasonlim.com>]

> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:06:13AM -0400, Chris Wagner wrote:
> > If ur looking for a fast RAID product that's reasonably priced I'ld
take a
> > look at NetCell's SyncRAID product (http://www.netcell.com/) which
uses a 64
> > bit RAID-3 variant they call RAID XL.  It got a good review from Tom's
> > Hardware Guide and it looks like they've really solved the
read-calc-write
> > problem of RAID-5.
>
> looks good, but is it supported in linux?  the web site says not:
>
>   "Currently only supports Windows XP, 2000, & 2003
>
>   Retail Box includes PCI card, CD, Manual, IDE cables.
>

I'm guessing since it is completely OS transparent it should work... not
that I have used it.

I have been wondering about the merits of using OS-transparent RAID
solutions as that would allow easy migration between systems.

Any thoughts on this?