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From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@TU-Ilmenau.DE>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID 1 vs RAID 0
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:33:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dql5hi$ald$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dqksi3$mf2$5@sea.gmane.org

Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Still, it seems like it should be a solvable problem...if you order the 
> data differently on each disk; for example, in the two disk case, 
> putting odd and even numbered 'stripes' on different platters [or sides 

Well, unfortunately for todays hard disks the OS doesn't know anything
anymore about platters, cylinders, sectors, zones etc.
Furthermore, such an attempt would break the (really nice!) ability to
use each single RAID1 mirror as a plain blockdevice with a plain
filesystem on it.


regards
   Mario
-- 
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories
to suit facts.                   -- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 10:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-18  5:07 RAID 1 vs RAID 0 Max Waterman
2006-01-18  5:20 ` Max Waterman
2006-01-18  7:40 ` Mark Hahn
2006-01-18  8:00   ` Max Waterman
2006-01-18  8:40     ` Brad Campbell
2006-01-18 10:33     ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [this message]
2006-01-18 11:43     ` Neil Brown
2006-01-18 13:02     ` John Hendrikx

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