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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible
 
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WindMinstrel
Jan 20, 2005
I'm a minstrel. Blow me.
If you're interested in learning something new, you can use solaris or freebsd7.0 and use ZFS, which does all the good things about RAID-5 without any of the bad stuff. Only thing it doesn't do is online capacity expansion, which sucks, and might be a deal breaker.

(I :love: ZFS)

Otherwise, software raid-5 with mdadm seems pretty reliable, and modern processors can do parity with no effort, you just have your normal RAID-5 drawbacks.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible