Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:37:47 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? Message-ID: <200005020037.RAA28837@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 17:16:36 PDT." <98468.957226596@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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>On Mon, 01 May 2000 17:20:57 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: >>> There are other issues to consider when thinking about software RAID-5. The >>> most important of these is the (lack of) non-volatile write-back cache. >>This is definitely a kicker. > >Um - UPS? I ask because power just went out here for a few minutes, and >upsd nicely warned me and started to shutdown (but power came back on). ...and what if the system had crashed instead? Bottom line is that you will probably lose your filesystem if you don't do write-through on a software RAID implementation. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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