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Ross Irvine wrote:
> 
> Brian O'Connor (boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
> :
> : Hello,
> :       we are considering setting up a large linux(or bsd) box, one
> : of the things that is plesent about Digital Unix(and others) is
> : logical volumes, I can concatanate multiple disks into one volume,
> : in addition, RAID would be an advantage. Does linux support RAID, and/or
> : LV?
> 
> Can't help you on spanning volumes but as for RAID, the only good RAID is
> hardware raid, software raid is unreliable, NOT as a fault tolerant as
> hardware raid, and places extra strain on the CPU etc.

I don't know of any supported RAID controllers, which doesn't mean
there aren't any -- try asking at comp.os.linux.* perhaps?

MD (multiple devices) driver currently does RAID 0 and RAID 1 IIRC.

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