raid questions

[David Koski]

On Sunday 13 January 2008 08:12:07 Sean Carolan wrote:
> Chris Lemire wrote:
> > I'm being told that my raid setup is a bad idea. Is this true?
> >
> > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=941593#post941592
> > <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=941593#post941592>
>
> I would advise against running RAID0 and RAID1 on the same pair of
> drives.  If you're writing to the RAID1 mirror, you'll lose any
> performance benefits you might have gotten from the RAID0.  I would
> choose one or the other and stick with it.

This is not correct.  It will not boot from linux software raid0 so that is 
out of the question.  Booting from raid1 and running raid0 should have no 
performance loss as the boot partition is only needed to boot.

David Koski
david at kosmosisland.com

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