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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 4:31 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid > > > Hey scsi fans, > > I picked up a 18 gig drive. I was planning on doing 3 6 gig > partitions and

off topic - scsi partitions & swap & raid

2000-09-20 Thread William Jensen
Hey scsi fans, I picked up a 18 gig drive. I was planning on doing 3 6 gig partitions and raid'n two of the partitions for linux. Question is what about the swap? Would I really need to do two 6 gig, 2 128 meg, then what's left for windows? This will be my first time for raid & scsi under linu