Well the hassles I gleaned from careful study of the following page: http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html Its quite amazing the different pitfalls he documents ... "Terabyte RAID testing is in progress, as performance is questionable." 6x100 is not a terabyte :) perhaps some of the problems start to appear with that extra controller... -Justin On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 12:13:52AM -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > (1) can /etc/raidtab use raw disks instead of partitions? > > I don't see why it would care. > > > (2) do all partitions have to be *exactly* the same size > > for current raid5 code? 3 out of 12 18gb drives had slightly > > no, though the min is used. > > > to the host via ultra160 scsi.. ? it would seem to save a lot > > of the hassle of finding the right combination of kernel, > > motherboard and controllers (to say nothing of wiring > > uh, what hassles/nightmares? I recently put together a 6x100G > server with no serious troubles at all - just your basic kt266a > board, onboard via controller and two promise tx2 cards. > total cost was around $3200 canadian, which pretty much astonishing... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
