In litteral terms, you can do software raid on linux with 1 HD and two partitions. However, it probably hurts performance, rather than improving it. The multiple heads on a hard drive all line up vertically and scan what's called a cyllinder (multiple sectors stacked on top of each other). They cannot read two partitions at the same time. You could test out software raid with two partitions, but I don't think you'd be too happy with it. You can probably get RAID 1 going with a very slight advantage. It won't save you in case your drive fails entirely, but if you start to get bad sectors or filesystem errors, at least your HD is backed up on another partition.
-Eric Hattemer ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. Wayne Liauh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:54 PM Subject: [luau] Software RAID (Donation of Oracle 9i Linux) > <Not really :)> > > Just thought that with the current advancement of multiple-head HDs, things might have changed. > But I suppose if someone can develop a new type of BIOS? > > > _______________________________________________ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau > >
