Subject: Re: SATA software RAID-inkernel vs hardware
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/26/2005 13:05:40
David Brownlee writes:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Greg Oster wrote:
>
> > der Mouse writes:
> >> We also have another machine which is using "hardware" RAID with no
> >> problems, but the RAID card is from a different manufacturer. So my
> >> take on it is that "hardware" RAID is "might be fine, might lose big",
> >> whereas RAIDframe basically Just Works. Just don't swap to it. :) (Or
> >> has the deadlock-against-itself bug been fixed by now? Probably....)
> >
> > The few issues of swapping to RAID were fixed in June, 2004.
>
> Just to confirm - does a machine still need to swapoff=YES
> in rc.conf if swap in on raid to shutdown that raid cleanly?
As far as I know, Yes.
Later...
Greg Oster