[Beowulf] 32 nodes cluster price

[Mark Hahn]

> I'd prefer they put their effort into supplying a raid controller that
> can actually detect corrupt raid sets. (cf. the recent thread "Big storage")

not me.  raid is too important to be trusted to hardware - have you
tried MD's check/scrub features?  though afaik it doesn't have a way
to switch on verification during normal reads (or, for that matter,
verify-after-write.)

in any case, I suspect that the trend is away from block-level raid...

regards, mark hahn.