Software RAID

[Zane C.Bowers]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:48:10 -0500
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:55 -0500, Zane C.B. wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > You really do not want to do it this way. Setting up raid on a
> > > > partitions just seems like such a bad idea on so many levels.
> > > > You should do it on the entire disk. Last time I remember
> > > > messing with it, the setup screen for that was not capable of
> > > > doing that.
> > > 
> > > Why do you think that?
> > > Being able to do it by partition provides for more flexibility.
> > 
> > Because it provides to totally freaking unneeded process. I don't
> > see how it provides any more flexibility.
> 
> What if your disks aren't the same size or you want to handle
> portions like swap in a different way?  If you do happen to
> want identical partitioning on 2 drives you can do that in
> one command line with sfdisk, although I prefer to do it
> interactively to be sure it is right.

Then the smallest disk determines the size. If you are not raiding the
swap as well, you are screwed. The swap or a chunk of it going missing
is not a good thing.
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