Hi Leonard, Thanks for your response and advice.
At 03:25 PM 12/17/2001 +0100, you wrote: > The use of RAID 0 with stripes on a single disk is pointless. You want to >stripe to gain performance. But if you use stripes on a single disk you will >probably even loose some performance due to the overhead. Even the use of >separate disks on the same controller is discouraged for IDE. You should use >two disks on separate controllers. I am aware of hardware RAID on M$Win OS using a controller connecting to 2 hard discs. But I am interested to learn whether Linux offers software controller to connect 2 hard discs. If "Yes" then how to make connection to 2 discs ? One to Primary IDE another to Secondary IDE, both as master ? Or to the same IDE, one as master another as slave ? Could you shed me some light ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen > RAID 1 is used where redundancy is needed. Even if you use two disks on >separate controllers the RAID 1 array will probably be somewhat slower than a >single disk for writing. Read speed might be somewhat increased if you choose >the right stripe size. When using two partitions on one disk you can expect >the write speed to drop to half that of a single partition, because >everything >has to be written to two partitions. And if you are lucky read speed does not >drop far below that of a single partition. You will have some redundancy this >way, but it is useless if the disk fails. > Really, if you want to build a RAID system you should go with two disks on >separate controllers at least. > > Bye, > > Leonard. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
