[asterisk-users] Saftware RAID1 or Hardware RAID1 with Asterisk

[Zane C.B.]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:38:19 +0300
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:29:09PM -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:08:05 -0700
> > "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Still true on CentOS 5.  You can only RAID partitions unless
> > > you do the LVM thing.  What are the disadvantages compared to
> > > being able to RAID the whole disk? Maybe for monitoring it's
> > > just more to deal with but does it make a RAID 1 any less
> > > reliable?
> > 
> > Being able to actually mirror a entire disk makes things a lot
> > easier to work with in all areas.
> > 
> > Why the hell would it make it less reliable? You have mirror
> > everything on a disk for reliable operation, including the swap.
> 
> You mentioned that the two disks are identical. Hence there's a
> large chance that they're from the same batch. This increases the
> chance of them failing together :-p

No, I am talking about the data on them. The disks just have to be
the same size.

> > 
> > Their are no disadvantages to mirror a entire disk.
> 
> A more complicated setup. But that's up to you to set up.

How the hell is mirroring using GEOM under FreeBSD more complex than
what it takes to get something very vaguely similar under Linux?

Software RAID1 on FreeBSD is way simpler, robust, and easier to work
with than Software RAID1 on Linux.