Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

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

You mean they are mirrored?

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>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.
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>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*

isint the data on both drives ?

>data is lost.  OTOH, if /home is going to be mounted remotely, this
>shouldn't be a problem, really.
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>There is documentation on this that has been submitted to the LDP, check out
>these:
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>(Software-RAID HOWTO)
>  http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID.html
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>(Disk partitioning schemes)
>  http://www.nyx.net/~sgjoen/disk.html
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>-=|JP|=-  (Resident GNUbie)
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>Jon Pennington             | SuSE Linux 6.0
>jon_pennington@xxxxxxxxxx  | Kernel 2.2.7+
>Kansas City, Missouri, USA | K6-2 350
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