Nonsense. Hardware raid only works on entire disks, maybe that's where this person's logic is coming from. Software raid has no noticeable performance difference between whole disk and partitions. Of course, if you use whole disk mdadm then the amount of pain that causes you is high. This could lead to you setting the entire server on fire in frustration... which means whole disk software raid is inherently less secure. On 25 Apr 2014 20:49, "Gora Mohanty" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Need some advice. I am being told by a hardware person that > a software RAID (Linux mdadm) array should use disks instead > of partitions for much improved efficiency. For the life of me, I > cannot see why this would be the case, and searching Google > turns up no such evidence. On the other hand, the difference in > wasted space would be huge, as we are talking about 3TB disks > to be used in a RAID-6 array. > > Could someone more familiar with software RAID offer advice? > > Regards, > Gora > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
