Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Jonathan Melhuish
Say I've got the following files: * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups, databases, etc. * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read quickly, eg. video Can I use software RAID-1 (mirroring) on a partition containing the first type of

Re: Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 16:30:10 + Jonathan Melhuish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Software-RAID-HOWTO kind-of implies that you can do this by specifying a partition number in the |/etc/raidtab file, but the description refers to devices throughout, not partitions. The devices are actually

Re: Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Robert L. Harris
You can mix and match any way you want. At my offwe we mirror (raid1) /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1 the root partition then we use LVM's to merge /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdc2 into /dev/lvm/lvm1 (/dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdd2 make /dev/lvm/lvm2). The LVM's are mirrored /dev/lvm/lvm1 and /dev/lvm2. Software RAID

Re: Software RAID on a single partition?

2004-02-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya jon On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: Say I've got the following files: * Some small files that I want to keep safe, eg. document backups, databases, etc. * Some big files that I don't care much about losing but need to read quickly, eg. video Can I use software