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Posted Saturday 13th September 2008 16:39 GMT
Steven Raith
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Ooh, you want RAID eh ,but without a RAID hardware adapter?

Have a look at ZFS - it's only really [IE proper reliably] working on Solaris at the moment as far as I am aware, but there are *nix ports in the works.

Allows you to have RAID-esque redundancy without RAID hardware. Currently looking at my desktop tower with four hard disks in it [two IDE, two RAID0 SATA] and seeing possibilities...

Here's a good start:

http://flux.org.uk/howto/solaris/zfs_tutorial_01

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