Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-19 Thread dstein2203
. Greetings, Dietmar - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Linear mode starting with one partition. Empfänger: XxEDGExX , Martin Bene Kopie-Empfänger: Paul Jakma , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 18. Apr 1999 15:22 Hmm, I'll look into using LVM first. It seems

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-19 Thread Dietmar Stein
- Ursprüngliche Nachricht - Absender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Linear mode starting with one partition. Empfänger: XxEDGExX , Martin Bene Kopie-Empfänger: Paul Jakma , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: 18. Apr 1999 15:22 Hmm, I'll look into using LVM first. It seems logical

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-18 Thread Dietmar Stein
I think, he wants to have an extendable partition; just increasing it when it is needed and therefore a LVM seems to be best. Important filesystems should be regulary backed up to prevent data loss. Greetings, Dietmar p.s: I am speaking of the Logical Volume Manager for Linux that is similar to

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-18 Thread Dave Cinege
"m. allan noah" wrote: ok dave, look at it this way. 1 in a million chance that one drive will fail. 1 in a million chance that you other drive will fail. 2 disk raid0 setup, either disk can destroy your filesystem. 2 in a million chance of md device failure. I can reverse that and

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-18 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Jim Ford wrote: Hmm, I'll look into using LVM first. It seems logical that someone would What's LVM (I'm new to this list)? I'm considering Linear or RAID-0; is LVM an alternative and where can I get more info, please? Regards: Jim Ford AFAIK: LVM is

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Bene
At 19:19 17.04.99 +0100, you wrote: yes it can. Martin Bene had a patch for this. It adds a an option to mark a disk in /etc/raidtab as failed, so that you can start the array in degraded state. Careful - My patch was designed for the redundant raid types 1/4/5, I don't think it'll be of any

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-17 Thread m. allan noah
do not use raid0 for part of your fs. i ONLY use raid0 for news spools. raid0 DOUBLES (at least) the chances of total fs loss. buy a bigger disk. allan "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Cinege
"m. allan noah" wrote: do not use raid0 for part of your fs. i ONLY use raid0 for news spools. raid0 DOUBLES (at least) the chances of total fs loss. buy a bigger disk. Hmm. I've run a 5 drive hardware RAID0 on my multi boot workstation for years now. I guess you mean this only in the

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-17 Thread m. allan noah
yes, but raid0 offers you no data protection. you have been lucky, hardware controller, software, or otherwise. raid0 is dangerous for important filesystems. allan "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max

Re: Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Cinege
"m. allan noah" wrote: yes, but raid0 offers you no data protection. Neither does a single drive. (Nor does RAID1/5 if two drives fail.) you have been lucky, hardware controller, software, or otherwise. raid0 is dangerous for important filesystems. I fail to see your logic. --

Linear mode starting with one partition.

1999-04-15 Thread XxEDGExX
Can this be done? I have a machine that I may want to later expend using linear mode expansion, but right now I on;y have one slice I'd like to use. Can linear mode be initiated with only one drive at the present time? Thanks -jeremy http://www.xxedgexx.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED]