Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20047650EF8 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:18:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82664-07 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:18:22 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1521650EE5 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:18:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ridley.home ([71.179.5.175]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K330015ANEFAZLA@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:11:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:17:50 -0400 From: Robert Treat Subject: Re: Hardware vs Software RAID In-reply-to: To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Cc: Greg Smith , "Peter T. Breuer" , Matthew Wakeling Message-id: <200806262217.51149.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200806251311.m5PDBNv23559@inv.it.uc3m.es> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200806/192 X-Sequence-Number: 30542 On Wednesday 25 June 2008 11:24:23 Greg Smith wrote: > What I often do is get a hardware RAID controller, just to accelerate disk > writes, but configure it in JBOD mode and use Linux or other software RAID > on that platform. > JBOD + RAIDZ2 FTW ;-) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL