4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Linux software RAID first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We moved off of those software raids after a while”
regret · production · jedberg · 2024-08-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated it over to mdraid and haven't had any problems with hardware failures since.”
endorse · production · anilakar · 2020-10-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Have you tried btrfs on an md RAID device (for interest)? We've run it for a while”
neutral · production · xioxox · 2016-05-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Linux MD and 3ware hardware raid ... both hang up waiting for the drive to fail. ... customers tend to get mad when their I/O hangs for hours on end.”
neutral · production · lsc · 2010-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?