Software RAID issues (was Re: Suggestions solicited, server bring up)

[Bill McGonigle]

On 11/18/2009 03:33 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>   I've found hardware RAID to be more reliable when booting with a
> degraded disk set.  A smart controller will just fail the bad member
> disk and ignore it.  Software-based solutions -- which don't kick in
> until the OS is running -- sometimes get caught up trying to boot from
> a failed disk.

To steal a line from one of my LUG members, "Please don't use RAID-5".
:)  A healthy, properly configured (and tested) RAID-1 will boot nicely.

-Bill

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