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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2000 17:46:47 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How good is AMI MegaRAID support? 
Message-ID:  <200005020046.RAA04605@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 17:16:36 PDT." <98468.957226596@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> 

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> On Mon, 01 May 2000 17:20:57 PDT, Mike Smith wrote:
> >>    There are other issues to consider when thinking about software RAID-5. The
> >> most important of these is the (lack of) non-volatile write-back cache.
> >This is definitely a kicker.
> 
> Um - UPS?  I ask because power just went out here for a few minutes, and
> upsd nicely warned me and started to shutdown (but power came back on).

Doesn't help much if you can't get a clean shutdown (think BSOD).

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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