Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:25:56 +0100, "Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To add last thing, you can try LVM to alocate your partitions (at least > relatively) dynamically. You wold probably have to put LVM on top of > RAID devices (and not the other way) to use both ;-) Tha

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-21 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
civileme wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > >> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: >> >>> I am thinking of purchasing a new computer with two hard drives of >>> the same type >>> and size. I am interested in implementing a Linux software RAID0 >>> (striping) >>> setup. I have a f

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-19 Thread J. Craig Woods
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > Note: The cleanest way to set up a winblows partition is to put it in on > a seperate cheap 4 gig hard disk as an IDE slave device, thus giving you > the freedom to use your two brand new drives completely in the RAID > array. This is what I ended up doing. It won't affe

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-19 Thread civileme
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > >>I am thinking of purchasing a new computer with two hard drives of the same type >>and size. I am interested in implementing a Linux software RAID0 (striping) >>setup. I have a few questions on this. >> > >One more th

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-19 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I am thinking of purchasing a new computer with two hard drives of the same type > and size. I am interested in implementing a Linux software RAID0 (striping) > setup. I have a few questions on this. One more thing. Here are the mount poin

Re: [expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 09:51, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I am thinking of purchasing a new computer with two hard drives of the same type > and size. I am interested in implementing a Linux software RAID0 (striping) > setup. I have a few questions on this. > > Firstly, can I still have a multi-bo

[expert] Linux software RAID setup

2002-03-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I am thinking of purchasing a new computer with two hard drives of the same type and size. I am interested in implementing a Linux software RAID0 (striping) setup. I have a few questions on this. Firstly, can I still have a multi-boot configuration? For example, if I wanted to allocate some space