On Monday 09 January 2006 14:53, James C. Dastrup wrote: > >All RAID0 does is join (or grow) partitions together. It is very useful > > if you have, for example, three 100GB disks about like them joined into a > > 300GB partition. > > Not exactly. A true RAID 0 (or a striped set) alternates writing each block > from one disk to the other. This increases performance because 2 chunks > of data can be written at the same time - one chunk to disk 1, one chunk to > disk2, etc. > > Joining partitions together, or extending a volume, is not RAID 0. This > does not necessarily increase performance, because data typically won't be > written to the second disk until the first is full. > > In both scenarios, your useable space equals all your disks combined, but > only the striped set improves performance. >
So what will mdadm do? What is my best option for using 2 drives to get the most speed out of them as a combined drive? -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
