On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 08:26 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think "JBOD" (just bunch of disks) > > is a name for some simple sort of multi-disk array, where disks > > are just joined into one volume, without any stripping/mirroring. > > It is actually even simpler than that. It is describing disks > connected to a hardware raid controller, but not part of any array. > They appear to the os as individual drives, essentially just using the > raid controller as a disk controller.
which essentially just as mentioned /mnt/disk[123] etc right? There's no consolidation into 1 /BIG-Storage-volume but at least one disk dies, the data still retains. Raid 5 is nice.. but sacrificing 1 HD space for it is too much for me :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:34:01 up 13:32, 5 users, load average: 1.88, 1.40, 1.20 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
