Scott Moseman spake the following on 5/22/2007 11:30 AM: > 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 What if you wanted /boot and / to be on a raid1 for redundancy, but you wanted a scratch directory on raid 0 for the speed, maybe for video editing or other I/O intensive operation? If you didn't care that the scratch directory failed on a drive fail, you could get back and running with a reboot and re-creating the filesystem on the scratch directory. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!