--- On Thu, 5/1/08, Kasper Sandberg <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Kasper Sandberg <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs > To: "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Alex Davis" <alex14641@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 9:39 PM > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Alex Davis wrote: > > > > > Is this a bad thing? I'm guessing that it is, > but I want independent > > > confirmation before I spoke to someone I know > who's doing this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > Be a better friend, newshound, and > > > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > > What is the use case, why would you want to do that? > > I have seen people on the list do it before, for > example are you going to > > be utilizing both raids at the same time? If so, I > would advise against > > it. > > > > What is the reasoning? > > I do this! > > is this really bad? i would surely like a list of reasons > why.. > > I do it because.. well.. first off, it allows me to have > /boot on > different raidlevel than / or /home without extra disks. > secondly, it allows me to with the same disks use different > filesystems.. for instance, it allows me to have /home > encrypted with > dm-crypt, while still raided.. Not that i would mind > encrypting / > and /home as 1 partition, but it creates a whole slew of > issues with > having to create initrd and stuff.. > > I realize that performance probably suffers abit from this, > but well.. > is there any stability or security wise risk? i mostly use > raid1 and > raid5 only.. > I would guess if the RAIDs are heavily used simultaneously it could cause the disk head actuators to jump around more, causing more wear and tear. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- 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
