[CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions

Russ rsivak at istandfor.com
Tue May 22 16:00:42 UTC 2007


I think his confusion stems from the fact that most (all?) hardware raid controllers only allow you to use the whole disk for a raid volume, not parts of it, and a disk can only be in a single raid volume (with the exception of a global hotspare).


Russ
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Miguel Medalha" <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:10:47 
To:"CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions

> How do you create several RAID devices if you only have 2 drives?
> Is there a way to create virtual RAID sets?  That sounds too scary.

Well, I may be wrong or may be using the wrong terminology, but on several 
occasions I did create several RAID 0 an 1 partitions on two disks. I would 
create a RAID 0 partition where I needed a boost in performance, a RAID 1 
partition where I needed more security. What do you say is wrong with that? 
Why is it wrong to create RAID devices, even of different types, with only 
two disks? I don't understand what you mean: virtual RAID sets? Of course 
they are virtual, but they are made of real disk space, not the entire disks 
but adequate parts of the disks. 

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