From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Multiple raids on one machine? Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:46:42 -0700 Message-ID: <449F1252.5090209@zytor.com> References: <449F100D.6030509@cjx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <449F100D.6030509@cjx.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Allen Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Chris Allen wrote: > > 2. Partition the raw disks into four partitions and make > /dev/md0,md1,md2,md3. > But am I heading for problems here? Is there going to be a big > performance hit > with four raid5 arrays on the same machine? Am I likely to have dataloss > problems > if my machine crashes? > 2 should work just fine. -hpa