On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 02:56:36PM -0500, Dave Myers wrote: > Since LVM did not come with the RedHat 7.2. S/3909 distro, > I am playing around with MD (software raid) to make multivolume > filesystems. > > I've read the Software Raid threads in the list archive, but I'm > still uncertain which level of RAID to use with the software raid? > > Seems like my RAMAC X82 hardware raid will handle most of this stuff... > so maybe I should just be using Linear mode....since striping and mirroring > will be done by the hardware anyway...or will it???? > > Am I creating unnecessary overhead by running RAID-0 ???
I think so. I'd go with linear and assume that the disk hardware is smart enough to spread it out among spindles. Adam
