Re: SCSI and EIDE
That's wonderful!
Now will Linux implement anything greater than RAID0?
Would you say your performance is significantly increased with striping?
How many drives can be striped?
On 15 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> Ricardo Kleemann <ricardo@americasnet.com> writes:
>
> > Good point about RAID0.
> >
> > I know linux's implementation of RAID0 is with the MD program. Do you
> > know if that's fully functional, and if so, is there a Debian package for
> > it? How is it used?
>
> I'm using it on two machines in the lab. One has two identical
> Quantum Fireballs, and the other has a Fireball and a Western Digital
> Caveat (ahem Caviar). On each machine most of the partitions are
> striped, but at least one is not. It works fine.
>
> You need to compile a kernel with bultiple device/RAID0 support and
> you need to install the debian mdutils package. Then read the stuff
> in /usr/doc/mdutils. That's it. The md package doesn't care if the
> drives are the same type, or even on the same kind of bus. That's the
> advantage to a software implementation. Granted I would expect
> performance to be best when you have 2 identical drives on the same
> kind of bus...
>
> --
> Rob
>
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