Hi all. I've read the most recent HOWTO, and still have a few questions. I plan
to implement RAID-1 on a 586 with two 6G IDE disks. Most files are greater than
4M, if that makes a difference.
If I want to experiement with different chunk sizes, must I rebuild the array
for each different test? Will that destroy the existing data? Must I make a
new filesystem after rebuilding the array each time?
Surely I could test this to find out, but my test machine is a 486 with 32M, and
it takes quite a long time to build the array. Is it worth experimenting with
chunk sizes on a mirror? What factors need to be taken into account when
changing the sizes?
How can I break the mirror? I see that by stoping the raid subsystem, I can
mount the individual disk. Is there anything further that needs to be done?
Is there an upgrade path from the 0.36 raid to the current 0.90 code? I recall
there being some problems at one point with compatibility?
Thanks very much,
Dave Wreski
