On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:29:09PM -0400, Zane C.B. wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:08:05 -0700
> "shadowym" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Still true on CentOS 5. You can only RAID partitions unless you do
> > the LVM thing. What are the disadvantages compared to being able
> > to RAID the whole disk? Maybe for monitoring it's just more to deal
> > with but does it make a RAID 1 any less reliable?
>
> Being able to actually mirror a entire disk makes things a lot easier
> to work with in all areas.
>
> Why the hell would it make it less reliable? You have mirror
> everything on a disk for reliable operation, including the swap.
You mentioned that the two disks are identical. Hence there's a large
chance that they're from the same batch. This increases the chance of
them failing together :-p
>
> Their are no disadvantages to mirror a entire disk.
A more complicated setup. But that's up to you to set up.
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