Re: General RAID question...

1999-06-03 Thread Mike Frisch
Tom Livingston wrote: > Linux software raid is partition based, so you don't have to lose that > space. When you sub in the 9gig for the 4gig, just make one partition the > same size as all the other disks, and another partition that will hold the > ~5gigs. Of course, this 5gigs isn't included i

RE: General RAID question...

1999-06-02 Thread Tom Livingston
> I am planning on building a small SCSI RAID array (using software RAID) > for my home Linux server. Suppose I have 4 of the same drive (perhaps > 4GB drives). What happens in a year or two when one of the drives fails > and I am unable to find a matching replacement? Linux software raid is pa

General RAID question...

1999-06-02 Thread Mike Frisch
I am planning on building a small SCSI RAID array (using software RAID) for my home Linux server. Suppose I have 4 of the same drive (perhaps 4GB drives). What happens in a year or two when one of the drives fails and I am unable to find a matching replacement? Sure, I could sub in a 9GB drive