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Re: SCSI Disk/Controller advice please



On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 07:10:53AM -0500, Tim Kelley wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 12:01:43AM +0100, Joao Clemente wrote:
> > Which are the tradeoffs of hard vs software raid1? What happens/How do
> > we proceed if 1 disk fails (how do we know it, how do we replace/resync
> > them?)
> 
> Software raid eats up more CPU, but linux' software raid seems to be
> rather good.  Doing the root filesystem on raid in linux is kind of a
> PITA.

Not if you're doing a fresh install with the Sarge
debian-installer CD. SW RAID-1 was downright easy.

-dsr-



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