Disk Layout/Partitioning Practices

[Kent Borg]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:09:44PM +0000, Alan Dunkley wrote:
> Software raid works fine for me 

Software raid 1 is also bootable.  Each mirror, though part of a raid
1 array, also looks like a regualr partition, so the boot loader can
use it just fine.

Raid 1 is also faster for reading than a single disk, and no slower
for writing.  (Assuming you put your disks on separate IDE controllers
so reads and writes cna be dispatched to each disk in parallel.)

-kb