On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:31 AM, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/04/2010 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: > [...] >> >> John, >> Thanks for the summary. It's succinct and covered the info I needed >> this weekend. > > In which case, apologies for not answering until Monday afternoon :-) > A little struggle on my side is good for the brain. forces me to read and learn a I try to do. Yeah, frustrating once in awhile, but a good thing none the less. >> One question comes to mind. I'm about to build a Gentoo machine >> that will run a number of copies of Windows in VirtualBox VMs. The >> system will be nice, reliable RAID1 for all of Linux, and then 'fast' >> RAID0 on different drives for the VM data. As there will be nothing >> involved with booting Linux on this RAID - just the VM data. I assume >> that there's no problem assembling RAID0 after the boot process has >> essentially completed, and that this RAID could use any form of >> metadata? > > Yep. You could do this with /home /usr /var too. I expect Gentoo's init > scripts will run mdadm for you before mounting the other filesystems; the > other distros generally do. Yes, I can turn them on if I choose with rc-update add. I haven't done that yet as I need to do some reading on that also. Currently I'm focused on understanding benchmarking a bit better - iozone, bonnie++ - to see what I currently have with my new RAID1. Cheers, Mark > > Cheers, > > John. > -- 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
