> Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have got say 6 partitions on sda.
> > I have created 6 partitions on sdb of equal size.
> >
> > My /etc/raidtab file is as follows :
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 1
RAID-1 _is_ mirroring and that's what u're getting. It
will mirror the _same_ data on to all the partitions
assigned. And the final size of the raid partition
created (/dev/md0 in u're case) will be the size of
the lowest sized partition among the partition cluster
u've assigned to be mirrored, as all the data cannot
be mirrored equally on to all the partitions if
they're of different sizes... If u want to use all of
u're 9 GB, go for striping. RAID-0 will do, for most
cases, unless u're too wary of u're data, then u may
consider RAID-5, but u'll some space because of the
parity data involved, but u'll get excellent recovery
of data in cases of failure...
Nikhil.
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