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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: |
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> Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume |
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> across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks |
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> are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate |
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> my old 40GB disk and a portion of my new disk (say another 40GB) to a |
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> single logical volume to be used as a fast audio and video |
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> scratchspace? (For Linux, that is -- I am aware that it wouldn't be |
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> accessible from Windows). I would keep the rest of disk in normal |
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> partitions to reduce the risk of losing all my data to disk failure. |
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It is perfectly possible, but performance may suffer if one disk is |
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slower than the other, compared with using the fast disk alone. Another |
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option may be to use the old disk for the operating systems and the new |
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one for data. Speed of the OS disk only affects program loading time, |
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you would then get maximum performance when using the programs. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. |
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