On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:26:27PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > That is a lot of raids. Have you ever thought about using LVM? The > different raid1 will mess up each others assumption about the head > positioning of the component devices. On read the linux kernel tries > to use the disk with the shorter seek and assumes the head is where it > left it on the last access. But if one of the other raids used that > disk the head will be way off. > > I would suggest the following scheme: this is what I would recommend as well > > sda1 / sdb1 : 100Mb raid1 for /boot (or 1GB for / + /boot) > sda2 / sdb2 : rest raid1 with lvm > > MfG > Goswin > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "Perhaps one way will be, if we use military force, in the post-Saddam Iraq the U.N. will definitely need to have a role. And that way it can begin to get its legs, legs of responsibility back." - George W. Bush 03/16/2003 the Azores, Portugal
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