> (please do not top post - fixing. Please take note!) (what's "top post"ing?) >> ok so, i also do know, its performance is going to suck ! > No, it'll be fine - merely a couple or more times slower at writing > large streams. Actually, over 4 times :-( He has a 4 way mirror on hdd. As well as having to send all date over the (same!) IDE bus 4 times, the disk head keeps having to move between the 4 partitions :-( > What's silly is that there's no point in doing it Not true -- there is little point. It will protect against un-re-vectored block faults. > you get no protection against the disk disappearing Indeed -- which is the real use for RAID1 ... > It's like making 3 sets of spare housekeys, and then putting them all > in the same keyholder as the original set, and walking around like that. Which has *some* use if the keys are made of very soft metal and "wear out". [ His actual problem was that he didn't realise that mkraid is brain dead, and needs a chunk size in /etc/raidtab, even when it's not used! I showed him how to use mdadm, and it worked ] _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
