>> >I am using debian 2.1 <snip> >> >I would like to set-up a RAID-1 array of 2 IDE drives (on separate >> >controllers). >> a raid software may be slow.....hmmm especialy ide raid >> it's not a good idea for system performance
>Excuse me jumping on here as I too have been considering this kind >of configuration for extra stability. Yes I know that's extremly stable (i'm using a raid-4 on 8 scsi disk) >Would system performance be poor if only >/etc and /home/~ were reading from and writing to both disks using >raid1 (assuming this is possible) ? I don't know because it's not a problem of mine.:) I'm trying to help another people......but on my server to setup a raid-1 i've to degrade my raid4 to 7 disk and link it to a spare-disk. (about 3 hour of work) Fabbione
