Topic: Raid 5

[Mattias Hult]

Software raid 5 would be great! It gives some protection against hard drive failure, and allows for huge storage. Hardware raid is way too expensive.

[Michiel van Es]

That's what I also would like to see..a simple setup of softraid 5!
But it is possible with the raidtools package they deliver.
But I also wnat to see more RAID controllers supported
So that it can really be a nice Internet server with redundancy.

greetz,

MichielvE

[William Davison]

Why not use hardware Raid 5 it is more reliable.  Some of SME info I have read makes this point and said there was no intention to support software Raid 5.