[rescue] Filesystem choice for fileserver?

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Apr 18 16:17:33 CDT 2008


On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>> Have I missed something?  Is there anyone who actually does RAID in
>> hardware?
>
> "Firmware RAID" is, I'm sure, probably a more accurate term.
>
> True hardware raid implemented in, say, an FPGA could probably be blindingly 
> fast.

Wouldn't that still be firmware RAID?  The FPGA usually has to download
its configuration from a serial EEPROM.

I mean, as long as we're going to be pedantic....

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