On 5/31/2012 10:15 PM, Igor M Podlesny wrote: > On 1 June 2012 09:31, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > […] >> You could probably expect it to be more reliable if you used RAID as >> it's meant to be used, which in this case would be a single RAID10 array >> using none, or only one partition per disk, instead of creating 4 or 5 >> different md RAID arrays from 4-5 partitions on each disk. This is >> simply silly, and it's dangerous if doing so inside VMs. > > — How do you know those RAIDs are inside VMs? Those who speak English as a first language likely understood my use of "if". Had I used "when" instead, that would have implied certainty of knowledge. "If" conveys a possibility, a hypothetical. For the English challenged, maybe reversing the sentence is more comprehensible: "If doing so inside VMs it is dangerous." -- Stan -- 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
