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From: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
To: Thomas Arthur Oehser <tom@toms.net>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is shrinking raid5 possible?
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:04:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AF43B14.60804@shiftmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091106131740.GA30506@Toms.NET>

Thomas Arthur Oehser wrote:
> Oooh, what would I want to do with "n small partitions"?  I know!  Raid!
>
> Scenario:
>
> existing:
> sda1 sdb1 sdc1 254M + 254M + 254M = 254M raid-1 /boot
> sda2 sdb2 sbc2 2G + 2G + 2G = 6G raid-0 swap
> ...
>   
Putting swap in a raid-0 will hang your computer as soon as sda, sdb or 
sdc fails.
Are you OK with that?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-06 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-19  2:30 Is shrinking raid5 possible? Paul Davidson
2006-06-19  4:39 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-19  5:07   ` Paul Davidson
2006-06-23  0:49   ` Bill Davidsen
2006-06-23  1:26     ` Neil Brown
2006-06-23  2:17       ` Paul Davidson
2006-06-23  8:34       ` Henrik Holst
2006-06-23 18:16       ` Christian Pernegger
2006-06-26  7:41         ` Neil Brown
2006-06-26 11:33           ` Christian Pernegger
2006-11-22 20:40             ` Henrik Holst
2009-11-06 13:17               ` Thomas Arthur Oehser
2009-11-06 15:04                 ` Asdo [this message]
2009-11-06 15:26                   ` Thomas Arthur Oehser
2009-11-06 17:00                     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-06 18:32                 ` John Robinson
2009-11-06 18:38                   ` Thomas Arthur Oehser
2009-11-06 19:30                     ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-11-06 19:38                       ` John Robinson

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