On 5/26/2013 4:26 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/05/13 15:15, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> First there is no such thing as "RAID0". Second, "striping" is only fit >> for temporary data. The OP is concerned with permanent data storage. > >>From mdadm(8): > >> Currently, Linux supports LINEAR md devices, RAID0 (striping), >> RAID1 (mirroring), RAID4, RAID5, RAID6, RAID10, MULTIPATH, >> FAULTY, and CONTAINER. > > And: > >> -l, --level= >> Set RAID level. When used with --create, options >> are: linear, raid0, 0, stripe, raid1, 1, >> mirror, raid4, 4, raid5, 5, raid6, 6, raid10, 10, >> multipath, mp, faulty, container. Obviously >> some of these are synonymous. > > While I agree that RAID0 is a misnomer, since there's no redundancy, we > have to accept that that's what it's called by the documentation and the > tools. Or at least, complain (and/or submit patches) to the maintainers > of the documentation and the tools, rather than here.
In your zeal to "correct" me, you have deprived the OP of a learning experience. You have "given him a fish". I was attempting to "teach him to fish". Ask him a year from now and he won't recall that RAID0 isn't really RAID, because he didn't have to go looking for the answer. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51a2960f.2030...@hardwarefreak.com
