[K12OSN] New Server Capacity Thoughts.

"Terrell Prudé Jr." microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sun Jun 8 21:33:36 UTC 2008


James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 01:47 -0700, Jamie Lists wrote:
>   
>> You were talking about not mirroring swap and tmp. But if you setup 2
>> drives in a raid 1 isn't everything mirrored automatically?
>>     
>
> Only if you set it up that way. I don't use hardware raid because I
> can't control how the drives will be put to use. Hardware raid will use
> the entire drive.
Can you clarify "can't control how the drives will be put to use"?  I
use hardware RAID all the time, and I can control exactly how my drives
will be used.

--TP
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