Re: hardware raid1 onboard

From: Bastiaan Spandaw (newsgroupaddy15_at_becobaf.com)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:19:27 +0100

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:10:26 +0000, Paul S. Brown wrote:

>
> It can't. What's your problem with SW RAID?
>

Well .. I dont have any experience with solaris way of doing software
raid, but.

- is it possible to have SW root RAID?

These points I have form experience with linux SW RAID

- what if the bootsector gets corrupted on the primary disk?

- Once a member of a SW RAID-1 mirror had errors on partition 4, but
because the server crashed multiple times partitions 1 and 2 got corrupted
on the other disk.. if wasnt able to swap disk 1 or two..

HW RAID is just easier to use..
I can call unskilled "remote-hands" in
the datacenter to swap a HW RAID setup, but not allways when its a SW RAID
server..

Is solaris way of doing SW RAID easier/more reliable?
More redundant? (bootsector thing)

Thanks,

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