[ale] Striping

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

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	If I understand you correctly you're wanting to use the MD support
for RAID level 1... which works in the newer kernels without patches...
however to strip the drives they have to be of equal size I believe... and
I've never seen it done where the root (/) partition was on a md device...
basically cause the md support isn't load'd till the kernel is load'd into
memory... If you go to http://www.linux-howto.com you should be able to
find the howto or mini-howto on MD device setup and it may have somethin
that I'm not aware of for setting your machine up like you want to...
	Sincerely,
	Jeremy T. Bouse
	System Administrator
	SouthNet TeleComm Services, Inc.

P.S - Since MD support is in the kernel rather than a RAID card it eats up
a lot more RAM for use in caching...

On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Tri Ngo wrote:

> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 10:23:13 -0400
> From: Tri Ngo <merlintm at avana.net>
> To: ale at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: [ale] Striping
> 
> Right now the configuration on my computer is:
> Windoze 95 on master 4.3g UDMA hard drive and 
> linux and swap on a puny little 830mg hardrive. Well as you can guess I have ran out of room. So I would like to change it to this configuration.
> 
> Hard drive A UDMA master 4.3=3.3 partition for Windoze and a 1gig partion for linux.
> 
> Hard drive B slave 830meg=800 meg partition for linux and 30 meg partion for swap.
> 
> Ok, I've heard of a technique called striping two harddrives when I was configuring a kernel. As far as I can understand striping causes two partition to show up as one and double the throughput by pingponging the data betweent the two. I hope I'm right here. So the question is : is it possible to stripe the 1 gig linux partion on drive A and the 800 meg partition on drive B? If it is, how? If not, what else can I do? Please I need detailed instructions since I'm not a wise as you allknowing Linux gurus. So basically, I need to know how to stripe two partions together.
> 
> Thank you I advance,
> Tri
> 
> PS: If your wondering why windoze gets the big and buff partition, its because it's a fat a** os anyway, so I know linux can handle the leaner one. But windoze will soon find it's way out. 
> 

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