[ILUG] Booting a broken raid array

[Niall O Broin]

On 17 Jan 2009, at 23:36, John Allen wrote:

>> 	I've had a couple of them where RAID1 was hugely slower than no  
>> RAID at all,
>> and similarly slower than RAID5. Down to a bug in the card /  
>> firmware, but
>>
> Ditto. Software RAID wins in my book everytime.

ALL RAID is software - it's just a question of where the software runs  
(and I include XOR engines here - still software, really, just very  
specialised software, runing on very specialised hardware) and how  
much you trust said software.  Linux software RAID definitely gains  
from the many eyeballs principle.



Niall