0 is striping, 1 is mirroring. Easiest way to remebmer: 0 means 0 percent chance of recovery in failure, 1 is 1 chance.
If you're sharing with Windows and an onboard controller you're going to have to do softRAID. True hardware RAID controllers make the individual drives transparent to the OS. Personally, I'd think there would be a much lower chance of screw-up with a hardware controller vs trying softRAID when running multiple operating systems. The onboard and/or inexpensive RAID controllers aren't true hardware RAID and linux will see seperate drives though Windows is setup to show one drive because you've loaded a driver. My only suggestion would be to be careful if you're running Windows and linux on the same softRAID array. If you have a separate pair of drives for each array then go hog wild or scrounge Ebay for a 4 port 3Ware. That be all, Mr O. --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My suggestion is to avoid use of the hardware raid, and use > software raid > via linux. > Also, be familiar with and refer to google's wealth :) > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Raid > http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto ("Fake" raid > is soft raid, > nothing really fake about it) > I don't know why software RAID does not get more respect these > days. When > processors were just babies, > hardware raid was needed for reasonable performance, but now > soft raid is > really fast, unless you're comparing > it with enterprise-grade NAS setups. IMO soft raid is fine > for non-SCSI > RAIDs :) > Basically, if you can/need-to afford SCSI, you prolly want a > hardware > controller. Also if you need a BIG array, > or even anything beyond 3 or 4 drives. > ben > > PS - you do mention RAID 1 there as well; although it sounds > like you're > wanting 0/mirroring for speed, > did you also want to setup a 1/striped array? > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
