27 Mar
2003
27 Mar
'03
9:37 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:13:14PM -0800, Bryan Koschmann - GKT wrote:
On a side note, is there any way I could get you to
give me a bit more
info about how you went about setting up your RAID(s)? Offlist is fine if
it will be too offtopic. Don't worry about it if you don't want to.
First and foremost, download Neil Brown's mdadm package. It makes
kernel software RAID a piece of cake! (apt-get install mdadm will work
if you run Debian)
Second:
# mdadm --create /dev/md0 --chunk=X --level=0 --raid-disks=2 /dev/disk1 /dev/disk2
The chunksize is an integer parameter that set how wide the stripes are
- playing with this value can change performance a lot, so definately do
some benchmarking!
*HOWEVER* - I wonder if you're not asking for a disaster. RAID0 has no
provision of reliability. ie, if one of those disks starts having
problems, you've lost all your data. I would be very reluctant to use
RAID0 as permanent storage for any of my music - there's too much risk.
Let me agree with other posters that it's probably overkill, especially
considering the data loss potential. I do my GNU/Linux recording work
to a partition that's actually a mirrored RAID1 pair (slower than a
single disk) and I've never had problems.
--
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