Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 18:04:54 +0000, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
> 
> >As for a partitioning scheme, hda should be / and hdb would be /usr, in
my own humble opinion.  That would keep confusion to a minimum.  Unless, of
course, you would want to use the disks in an IDE Stripe Array (poor-man's
RAID ;) ).

NOTE:  I also meant for /swap to be on hda...

> 
> J.P., 
> 
> What do you mean by poor mans sttripe array ? how is it diffrent from raid
?

Well, strictly speaking, it *is* RAID, but instead of a very sophisticated
SCSI controller doing the work, it's all handled by 'Block Devices/Multiple
Devices' in the kernel (software).  NT can do it to.

I forget the RAID level that it emulates (either 0 or 1), but the effect is
that two physical disks become one volume, and they also run faster (about a
30-50% increase in speed).  The drawback is that if one disk fails, *all*
data is lost.  OTOH, if /home is going to be mounted remotely, this
shouldn't be a problem, really.

There is documentation on this that has been submitted to the LDP, check out
these:

(Software-RAID HOWTO)
  http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID.html

(Disk partitioning schemes)
  http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.html

-=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)

Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.0
jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx  | Kernel 2.2.7+
Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350

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