On 8/3/2012 8:37 AM, David Brown wrote: > On 03/08/2012 13:18, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> The primary function of RAID is to protect your data in the event of a >> _disk_ failure. Creating multiple arrays from _partitions_ on the same >> set of physical disks does nothing to protect one from disk failure. >> > > That's not how I understand the disk layout - if I'm right, it is still > a monstrosity, but one that will offer protection on disk failure. I didn't state this setup would not protect data from disk failure. I stated that a single array would have done that. Making 9 more simply causes all kinds of problems without any additional benefits. -- 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
