<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Dan Ritter <<a href="mailto:dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu">dsr-myth@tao.merseine.nu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 03:11:54PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:<br>
> >> runs smartmon no problem. Plus there is a web interface to manage the<br>
> >> drives from within the OS.<br>
> ><br>
> > That's not an advantage.<br>
> ><br>
> Webmin provides this on linux.<br>
<br>
</div>That's still not an advantage.<br>
<br>
When you really need to use a disk configuration tool, you will<br>
be neck-deep in alligators. You may have a serial console or a<br>
text console that can't do X and may not have a network<br>
capability. You may be three thousand miles away and need to<br>
bring the disks up before you do anything else.<br>
<br>
In which circumstances, not having experience with the command<br>
line tool is... problematic.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, this is a discussion list about boxes that<br>
sit in your living room, or perhaps as far away as your basement<br>
or attic. So, do what you like.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"></div></blockquote><div><br>Dan, I have to agree completely with you, especially this last paragraph. I am not against hardware raid devices, but for my home, hardware raid is "cost-defective". I use hardware raid controllers for 95% of the hardware at my work, mainly because they are willing to pay for it, however I am not. <br>
<br>My original 6 drives running a software raid created using mdadm on fedora 6 has been migrated through 2 servers, and 3 different installs, with no problems, it just came up and mounted with absolutely no problems. Which is what lead me to create this discussion; I did not know if I was just lucky, and after growing in size, I wanted to find out if I needed to do things different in the future. After reading all of your comments and links to documentation, etc I have concluded that I am on the right path with Linux-based software raid, for my home use.<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
-dsr-<br>
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