GRUB trouble
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Thu Aug 16 11:33:34 UTC 2007
David Krings wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> * Sometimes the term refers to controllers where the OS driver
>> and card's on-board flash BIOS provide 100 percent of the RAID
>> capability. This is called software RAID, or less flatteringly, fake
>> RAID.
>>
> Really? AFAIK a fake RAID is considered a RAID controller that doesn't
> have its own CPU and RAM, but uses resources of the main system.
> Software RAID is when the OS itself performs the RAID functions
> regardless if there is a RAID controller or not. As long as you have
> (ideally) two identical drives,
Not so David. The overall size of the HD is not a part of the raid-1
process. You need any size HD that has enough space for all the
partitions 8-)
> you can create a software RAID on any system.
>
> David
>
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