On Wed, June 9, 2004 16:59, Guy said: > You said: > "Now consider RAID5. Here, with a hardware controller all of the data is > written to the RAID card which in turn calculates parity and stripes the > data over the disks. With software RAID, the software calculates parity and > writes the data across all the mirrored drives. The only additional bus > traffic for software RAID is the parity data." > > I believe this is wrong: [snip] Like I also said: >> >> I'm not expert but... >> Hmm. I can't spell either! :o) > About your swap plans... > If you were going to use 4 disks, create 2 RAID1 arrays, give both to swap. > Swap will strip to both arrays. I believe this would give better > performance over creating a single RAID1/0 array. > I came to the same conclusion myself 30 secs after hitting "send". Thanks for the suggestion. R. -- http://robinbowes.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
