[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Sat Apr 19 16:11:08 CDT 2008


On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:10 , der Mouse wrote:

>>> A lot of hardware RAID cards have horribly slow processors on them.
>> [..."hardware RAID"...]
>
> Does anyone actually do hardware RAID?  I've never seen any.  All the
> supposedly-hardware RAID I've seen is actually software RAID running  
> on
> a dedicated processor (what would more honestly be called firmware
> RAID).  Usually it doesn't even try to hide that - for example, I've
> seen POST-time messages like "booting controller kernel".
>
> Have I missed something?  Is there anyone who actually does RAID in
> hardware?

Well, thinking that way:

I've never seen a hardware CPU.  They all are programmed in microcode  
or "fixed logic instructions".

Has anyone actually done a CPU in hardware?

:)

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