Re: NATA update

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

some things they offer over vinum is: easiness of setup, no disklabel 
stuff, if a drive fails just go into the setup and rebuild it. its easy 
(TM).

As long as theres no quick way to RAID-1 all partitions including / 
whats the point?

If we had ZFS port done then there would really be no point in using 
onboard RAID, I agree.

Petr


Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:58:18AM +1100, Petr Janda wrote:
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> > Does this mean now that onboard RAID controllers that come with today 
> > nearly all motherboards will be finally supported? If so, thats awesome. 
> >     
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> The "onboard" RAID controllers are more or less a marketing gag. Almost
> all the functionality still has to be implemented in the drivers, they
> don't offer the performance of real RAID controllers nor the ability to
> use e.g. battery buffered write caches. In short, they don't offer over
> ccd or vinum.
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> Joerg
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