> Hi Chris,
>
> I think a RAID 5 setup should do the trick for you.
> It's faster than RAID 0+1 (at least for writing) and
> will get you more disk space (66 % on 3 disks vs 50 % for RAID 0+1)
> BTW RAID 0+1 (=mirrored sets of striped disks) is quite hard to do with
> only 3 disks , 4 would be minimal.
RAID 0 had nothing to do with mirroring. It's a variant on lineair appand. It
strips the disks but does no mirroring..
> I have no experience with linux raid, so I don't know if
> overhead will cost you performance.
I have a raid-0 partition of 12GB on my multia. The overhead is almost zero
but i never did any benchmarking so actually i don't know.
Just make sure that you use the latest raidpatches for your kernel and the
latest raidtools (i believe it was 0.90).
If you have any questions contact me, i worked most things out and got it to
work.
Grtz
Raymond
"DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any
applications needing more." - Microsoft, 1980, on the development
of DOS
"Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any
application will ever need" - Microsoft, 1992, on the development
of Windows NT
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