Comment 27 for bug 102973
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| Chad Bernier (berniercr) wrote Re: [Bug 102973] Re: dmraid looking for raid45 when kernel uses raid456 | #27 |
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I'd like to meet these people who suggest to use just use linux software
raid. It has its purpose, and we would be using it if it fit the bill. The
computer with $500 worth of hard drives, the huge case and power supply
needed to run them, and all that jazz, is probably the best computer in the
house. It probably has other expensive components making it useful for
gaming, video production, modeling, or other things. That stuff usually
needs to be done in windows. most of us can not escape windows 100% of the
time. If we do need windows, we are going to want it on the best computer
in the house, the one with a raid5 array.
another issue, what if you already have your 2TB raid5 array almost full on
a windows computer. THEN you decide to install linux. what can you do
then? Do you have another 2TB of free space to backup your raid5 array to
so you can reformat it? I know I wouldn't.
your options
1) get a hardware raid card
2) use a different distro
3) never run windows natively on that computer
4) don't use raid at all
number 2 is the mostly likely for people to choose, because all the others
require great sacrifice.
There is a 5th option, but it isn't for the faint of heart. You could try
hacking raid 5 support together yourself. But this isn't the ubuntu way. If
you run a custom compiled kernel, is it really still ubuntu? But by asking
this question, it can be reasonably assumed that you are either unable or
unwilling to try this. I switched to ubuntu because i got sick of fiddling
with everything in gentoo, and nothing else i tried was impressive.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:09 PM, nox216 <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't expect this to be fixed anytime soon.
>
> Despite software fake RAID being on a majority of shipping motherboards,
> and despite dmraid being in a workable place with the correct kernel
> modifications, there just isn't any interest in adding this
> functionality to Ubuntu. Most responses consist of "well, use Linux
> software RAID." *shrug*
>
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> dmraid looking for raid45 when kernel uses raid456
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