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From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@wp.pl>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: raid1 on HDD + RAM ?
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:43:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E28F87.4010701@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080930212107.3175f888@szpak>

Janek Kozicki wrote:
> David Greaves said:     (by the date of Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:09:57 +0100)
> 
>>> They would automatically sync on boot-up of the computer.
>> You'd need to create and --add the ramdisk...
> 
> ok, I'll figure this out :)
> 
> 
> 
>>> I'm asking because an ultra-fast READ and normal WRITE would be
>>> useful for me...
>> Also look at the --write-mostly and --write-behind options in mdadm.
> 
> thanks, this is great news for me. For real use I will need to
> repartition my hard drive - to create another partition for that.
> 
> But just for testing - will it work if mdadm will use LVM partition,
> which is already on top of mdadm raid ?
yes, absolutely.

md works with *any* block device.

> Or maybe just use some huge file as a loopback device? 
> 
> Which testing method is better?
Since you are intending not to use the device then they should be the same.
I'd use an lvm partition though.

David



-- 
"Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 15:49 raid1 on HDD + RAM ? Janek Kozicki
2008-09-30 17:09 ` David Greaves
2008-09-30 19:21   ` Janek Kozicki
2008-09-30 20:43     ` David Greaves [this message]
2008-09-30 18:21 ` Robin Hill
2008-09-30 19:36   ` Janek Kozicki

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