Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/2/06, Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I dont understand this. Why should the write speed be so > degraded? If you have 4 disks in raid5, and you want to write > 1.5 GB of data, you actually write 500MB on disk1, 500MB on disk2, > 500MB on disk3 and 500MB on disk4 (1.5 GB data + 0.5

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Jarry
Richard Fish wrote: > On 3/2/06, Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>let's say a ~100MB /boot in RAID1, 512MB swap not in RAID on every disk, Actually, if you make 512MB "non-raid" swap on each disk with equal priority, its like having swap on raid0 (it will be stripped over swap-partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-02 Thread Richard Fish
On 3/2/06, Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Thank you all for the fast replies, you helped me a lot. Unfortunately > we cannot afford a HW RAID card, so I have to make it with software RAID. > Now I have the idea to use RAID5 and if I get the picure rigth I need > let's say a ~100M

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-01 Thread Matt Randolph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - could someone give me a good howto? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1+0 question

2006-03-01 Thread jarry
Marton Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - could someone give me a good howto? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#software-raid > - do I need to make a /boot partition which is not part of any > arrays or will grub boot from raid1+0? You can make /boot on raid too,