On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Enrique Garcia Briones wrote: > I have read the setting-up for the raid-5 and 1, but I would like to ask you > if I can set-up a combined RAID configuration as mentioned above, since all > the examples I found upto now just talk of one RAD configuration you can have more than one /dev/mdN device no problem... if you've got a raid1 root disk setup on a box with raid5/6, and you want to use a journalling filesystem on the raid5/6 you should seriously consider saving space on the root disk for an external journal for the raid5/6 filesystem. it really helps metadata-heavy operations to offload the journal writes to the raid1 spindles. -dean - 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
