On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:22:03AM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: > Oh, and I am a fan of software raid 1, not only for redundancy, but > because it is faster for reading than a single disk. (At least it is > for IDE where putting paralel disks on separate controllers is > practical.)
If you want to be a true performance freak (I am every once in a while) then do software raid 0. Trade redundancy for performance. My favorite setup is to have /boot, /home and /usr/local in raid 1 and the rest in raid 0. That way, my personally generated data is kept redundant, while the system itself is enhanced for performance. Should a disk die, I replace it, restore my raid 1 data and reinstall the rest. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Ingeniero de Sistemas Virtualia S.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763 Av. Kennedy 5757, of 1502 Las Condes Santiago Chile
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