Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On 6/29/20 7:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
> > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > On 6/29/20 9:10 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > >
> > > > Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > > Now who's being pedantic?
> > Precisely.
> >
> > > And isn't this exactly what I said??? mdadm is an admin program, it doesn't
> > > perform the raid function.
> > And it's OK to refer to the whole thing as an mdadm RAID.
>
> No.. if you want to be pedantic, the proper terminology is "Linux Raid" or
> "md RAID."?? mdadm is one of several admin programs available
What are the others, please? (That will work on a modern system,
say, Debian stable or oldstable or unstable.)
I think there's precisely one -- libblockdev2.
> saying "mdadm raid" is like saying "libvert hypervisor" - when what you
> really mean is Xen, or KVM, or ESXI - accessed through libvert
>
> When you're building systems, details matter.
libvirt.
-dsr-
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