[CentOS] Re: A question about RAID and partitions

[Scott Moseman]

On 5/22/07, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> You create raid devices over partitions that don't span the entire drive.
>

Why would this be a configuration that someone would want to do?
So you can have both a 0 (performance) and 1 (redundancy) on the
same physical drives, depending on your partition?  Just seems odd.

Thanks,
Scott