From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760295AbYEANm0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:42:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757423AbYEANmR (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:42:17 -0400 Received: from web50210.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.51]:36608 "HELO web50210.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757342AbYEANmQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2008 09:42:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=jyIhkNZk9T3yyRi0fOmqqRXS3mQG6hFKO0EEONfS+rKsj25S2NyOxsuwNxqI/RkWyLFnbYk5Uf352Q3rbXT09NDkTdFckP9S/DmLiHpDk+Ga/Klwv1zQ/8UU0Zwmpo+I1Zk52j7nyxqcnpwvCY6bG1y94cVc24o+XwI9QjfUPLo=; X-YMail-OSG: bJMPj_EVM1lEl4X1ykaUrhXqKAFYhIvpvDgB5esBvW5NmC8jeG8VmDrtpfC6wtY9yWZp2FPjrzWECB8NZrrYwl6.ztqYspOvbj5vF.70zwzjvYY6dap2qMBE0w-- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.185 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 06:42:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Davis Reply-To: alex14641@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs To: Justin Piszcz Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <232402.74959.qm@web50210.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- On Thu, 5/1/08, Justin Piszcz wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz > Subject: Re: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs > To: "Alex Davis" > Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008, 8:50 AM > On Thu, 1 May 2008, Alex Davis wrote: > > > Is this a bad thing? I'm guessing that it is, but > I want independent > > confirmation before I spoke to someone I know > who's doing this. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > What is the use case, why would you want to do that? > I have seen people on the list do it before, for example > are you going to be utilizing both raids at the same time? Yes. > If so, I would advise against it. > > What is the reasoning? No, I don't want to do this. I know someone who is, and I wanted to get more input before I advised them to get more disks. The RAIDs are running in degraded mode, so they'll need more disks anyway. Since they are (or hopefully soon will be) buying more disks, I'll advise them to get dedicated disks for each RAID. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ