From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: debian software raid1
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:15:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110421061545.GA15220@maude.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DAEF2F1.8080204@cdf.toronto.edu>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:29AM -0400, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
> raiding the whole drive. This does have the drawback that any replacement
> drives have to be the same size or bigger than what you had to begin with.
I am missing your point here.
The requirement of having a replacement drive at least as big as the
original one, usually comes from the fact that a smaller drive won't be
able to contain your data, not from some md voodoo.
If someone here still believes that drives from different vendors with
the same nominal size have different real size please read:
http://www.idema.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=1192
--
Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-21 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 12:12 debian software raid1 b2
2011-04-19 12:25 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-19 16:03 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-19 21:10 ` Gordon Henderson
2011-04-19 21:33 ` Steven Haigh
2011-04-19 22:01 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-04-19 22:05 ` Mathias Burén
2011-04-19 22:51 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-20 0:33 ` Joe Landman
2011-04-20 1:12 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-20 14:59 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-20 14:51 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-21 6:15 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2011-04-21 14:50 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-22 5:59 ` Luca Berra
2011-04-22 19:19 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-22 19:28 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2011-04-23 0:07 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-20 10:28 ` Asdo
2011-04-20 12:40 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-23 8:33 ` Jan Ceuleers
2011-04-22 19:21 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-22 22:12 ` NeilBrown
2011-04-23 0:05 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-04-23 12:54 ` David Brown
2011-04-23 14:23 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
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