Re: raid 0 on different size devices?

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On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Dan Egli wrote:

> Can the linux Software Raid handle devices of differing size? Basically my
> issue is this: I've got two drives, a 27GB and a 40GB. I really want to
> get them accessed as a single device. Is it possible to stack these drives
> using like a raid 0?

Yes.  Years and years ago I did this with 10 drives (6 scsi, and 4 ide).

Remember that a drive failure on any disk is going to trash the entire
array.

There's also a linear raid mode that works the same basic idea as raid0,
in Linux.

Mike
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