RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread Christian Pernegger
> -Original Message- > From: Wesley Wannemacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:07 PM > To: William Jensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid > > > Let me get this str

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
At 08:57 AM 9/21/00 -0400, you wrote: >Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also kno

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Leone
>Now for: >raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. >raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk space is available. Fault >tolerant. You mean minimum 2 drives, don't you? And usable space is 1/2? I believe raid 1 is also known as mirroring. -- *-^-*-^-*-^-*-^-

Re: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-21 Thread C. Falconer
Concur with Wesley - raid on one drive is like mounting a ramdisk as /tmp - pointless because any benefits from the technique are nullified by the way you've done it. Now for: raid 0 (striping) min drives 2, reads and writes faster, no reduncancy. raid 1 min drives 3, 2/3 of your total disk sp

RE: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-20 Thread Wesley Wannemacher
Let me get this straight... Are you going to RAID two partitions on the same physical drive? Seems kinda absurd, RAID accomplishes one (or more) of two things: Fault-tolerance from hardware failure. Improve read/write performance, by spanning multiple physical disks. By mirroring, striping, etc. t