From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937087AbYECAoe (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 20:44:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765206AbYECAoY (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 20:44:24 -0400 Received: from web50201.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.38.42]:23319 "HELO web50201.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1764994AbYECAoX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 20:44:23 -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=tAbJyyFGTCp319e5mosw8ch31goaaUCrT8Qwz4iA8SlH+NNoS2a/XmC+f2z/NxTHompD8sV7c2SXkhhoIt0Fpdy+OkGjjiPykUrlv06qD6EYdpPbm6h30L2Twdisoakg2EsUPdIKAlIrMuTb2SCTycFI3in+s4JymqjoQRM68PM=; X-YMail-OSG: bLQ_XCYVM1mjlWUElGY9G9DXR_q_2_rEJK2Ht5hkbsPoELGIlDAEISYv8Ptq9UXiOFvitROay9zgGrdR._9kVz4T5LkjgVkpm8mHh.B_C6XBUfUQgBcNrw-- X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.185 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 17:44:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Davis Reply-To: alex14641@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Sharing disks amoung multiple software RAIDs To: Kasper Sandberg , David Greaves , David Lethe Cc: David Rees , Justin Piszcz , 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: <824925.21830.qm@web50201.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I code, therefore I am --- On Fri, 5/2/08, David Lethe wrote: [snipped] > I was being too literal. md is a good solution (I use it > myself). However, the OP wanted to "Make sure that if > one disk dies, the data is still in tact". I was also concerned about performance. It seems that if the RAIDs will be used heavily and independent of each other, and performance is a concern, then dedicated disks (and possibly dedicated controllers) are the better option. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ