From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Can extremely high load cause disks to be kicked? Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:12:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4FC8CDE1.4050807@hardwarefreak.com> References: <20120531083158.GE3867@bitfolk.com> <4FC81B85.8090807@hardwarefreak.com> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Igor M Podlesny Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 5/31/2012 10:15 PM, Igor M Podlesny wrote: > On 1 June 2012 09:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > [=85] >> You could probably expect it to be more reliable if you used RAID as >> it's meant to be used, which in this case would be a single RAID10 a= rray >> using none, or only one partition per disk, instead of creating 4 or= 5 >> different md RAID arrays from 4-5 partitions on each disk. This is >> simply silly, and it's dangerous if doing so inside VMs. >=20 > =97 How do you know those RAIDs are inside VMs? Those who speak English as a first language likely understood my use of "if". Had I used "when" instead, that would have implied certainty of knowledge. "If" conveys a possibility, a hypothetical. =46or the English challenged, maybe reversing the sentence is more comprehensible: "If doing so inside VMs it is dangerous." --=20 Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html