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On 04/02/2010 07:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> 1) Yes, you can RAID partitions of drives. That's what I'm doing. You |
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> can look at the Gentoo RAID/LVM Install guide to see an example of |
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> using RAID0 and RAID1 on a single drive. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml |
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Very useful post, thanks. I'm just nitpicking here about the use of |
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RAID0 on a single physical drive, which doesn't seem useful IIUC. |
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RAID0 alternates stripes between two physical drives so that one disk |
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can be reading/writing while the other disk's heads are seeking, no? |
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If that is the case, then single-disk RAID0 will just be thrashing the |
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heads back and forth between stripes on different partitions, making |
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more work for itself than necessary. |
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If I'm wrong about this, someone please correct me. |
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