On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Doug Ledford wrote: > I really like software raid5....and no one has convinced me not to > yet.... I really like the idea of being able to hot swap a disk and have the system A) notice, and B) take care of it properly with no intervention. Assuming a hot swap backplane is used, is Linux software RAID-5 there yet? Can I boot from a RAID-5 (software) partition, or will I be forced to boot from some less reliable medium? > Yep, that's because the seeks are performed inside the file, so the > larger the file, the farther apart the random seeks can be, the lower That's what I was guessing. ----don't waste your cpu, crack rc5...www.distributed.net team enzo--- Jon Lewis *[EMAIL PROTECTED]*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________ - Linux SMP list: FIRST see FAQ at http://www.irisa.fr/prive/mentre/smp-faq/ To Unsubscribe: send "unsubscribe linux-smp" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
