SnapRAID Yields A New RAID Kernel Library For Linux

phoronix

Administrator

Join Date: Jan 2007

Posts: 64687
- Share
- Tweet
#1

SnapRAID Yields A New RAID Kernel Library For Linux

06 January 2014, 11:50 AM

Phoronix: SnapRAID Yields A New RAID Kernel Library For Linux

A new RAID library is under development for the mainline Linux kernel that supports up to six parities...

SnapRAID Yields A New RAID Kernel Library For Linux - Phoronix

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTU2MTU

Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite
Tags: None
liam

Senior Member

Join Date: Jan 2009

Posts: 2328
- Share
- Tweet
#2

06 January 2014, 04:26 PM

I've been following snapraid fit awhile and been hugely impressed with Andrea. He's managed some novel work to enable far higher raid levels that not only works but is pretty damned optimized.
I had no idea he was interested in mainlining this work, however.
Snapraid is a great alternative to zfs for people with media libraries. In fact it is better for media libraries since it has it doesn't rewrite all disks to run in order to access data and you basically are never under risk of losing the entire array.
Comment

Announcement