On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Where is the best documentation on raid in general located? I'm thinking
> about striping my drives (raid 0 -- 2 IDE and 1 scsi) but have no idea
> what I'm up against, or if it would benefit me on speed. I looked
> through HOWTO's but found only the ROOT-RAID howto. It seems to deal
> with older raid drivers, and I don't plan to put my root on a MDx
> anyway.
>
With raid0 you will benefit speedwise, but will lose what comes
to reliability. The fault on one drive will propably rend
your whole raid0 array useless.
> I want to reformat my drives to keep roughly the same partition sizes I
> have now, but with increased speed from spreading the data across
> multiple drives.
>
> Am I way off base?
>
You are in correct base :)
First take a look at, or preferrably read it through with thought
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
Then you might want to get linux 2.2.14
and patch it with:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.14-B1
Also get and compile this for userland tools:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raidtools-dangerous-0.90-20000116.tar.gz
and you should be ready to go.
-- Mika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
