Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

[m. allan noah]

yes, but raid0 offers you no data protection. you have been lucky,
hardware controller, software, or otherwise. raid0 is dangerous for
important filesystems.

allan

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On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Cinege wrote:

> "m. allan noah" wrote:
> > 
> > do not use raid0 for part of your fs. i ONLY use raid0 for news spools.
> > raid0 DOUBLES (at least) the chances of total fs loss. buy a bigger disk.
> 
> Hmm. I've run a 5 drive hardware RAID0 on my multi boot workstation for years
> now. I guess you mean this only in the context of Linux software RAID0??
> 
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