[CentOS] Generic RAID question

Wed May 19 17:52:00 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

> Does anyone know if using unequal drives in a RAID 0 is possible?
>
> I was looking to set up a software stripe but if I have two volumes of
> unequal size I wish to stripe over, will the OS try and work around
> this by say only using as much space as is available on the smallest
> drive or is there anyway it will use all of both drives?
>
> Does it have to be a perfect block/byte balance across drives? (I'm
> assuming yes?)

Not sure... but if so, why not just partition the larger to have one
that's the same size as the smaller?

      mark