On Monday December 1, scott.bailey@eds.com wrote: > > 4. At this point, I would *NOT* recommend building a RAID0 array from (2) > and (3), as you will end up generating a lot of contention on the 36GB disks > by doing so. Either use them as separate devices, or concatenate them (using > LVM perhaps) if you really need all of the space in "one place". or md/linear. > > I imagine simultaneous rebuilds of both RAID5 devices would not be a > pleasant experience. :-) > It is never nice to have to rebuild an array (though it is nice that it just works), however this case is no worse than any other. md will notice that the two raid5 arrays share some physical drives and will serialise the rebuilds. NeilBrown - 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
