[rescue] RE: somewhat OT: secondary market storage?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 05:47:46PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:36:06PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > I think you guys have too much budget...  :)  For what it's worth, Linux
> > software RAID outperforms every in-box RAID controller that I've found
> > (in box meaning on a PCI card, or the like).
> 
> Didnt someone say "linux is only cost-effective if your time is free", or
> something like that? 8-)

In my experience, linux is pretty easy to get going, for simple tasks like
file serving, etc.  I've seen others having major problems with hardware 
raids in linux (my recal was that the problem was a FS bug).

I really find NetBSD to be nice, in my extremely limited experience.

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Joshua D. Boyd