On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:11:55 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > Am I correct in understanding that I can use LVM2 to stripe a volume > across more than one disk, just like a raid 0 setup, even if the disks > are quite dissimilar? Would it be possible (or worthwhile) to allocate > my old 40GB disk and a portion of my new disk (say another 40GB) to a > single logical volume to be used as a fast audio and video > scratchspace? (For Linux, that is -- I am aware that it wouldn't be > accessible from Windows). I would keep the rest of disk in normal > partitions to reduce the risk of losing all my data to disk failure.
It is perfectly possible, but performance may suffer if one disk is slower than the other, compared with using the fast disk alone. Another option may be to use the old disk for the operating systems and the new one for data. Speed of the OS disk only affects program loading time, you would then get maximum performance when using the programs. -- Neil Bothwick Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
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