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From: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:11:38 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c86.45880f3a.481de@altium.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: em915v$7h6$1@sea.gmane.org

Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar@gmx.net> wrote:
| And with one Maxtor 250 GB and one Seagate 250 GB, will that work? It can go
| wrong on two accounts; the geometry issue I desbribed (which, I understand,
| shouldn't be an issue at all), and if you're trying to clone the partition
| table on a smaller disk. The latter would be fixed by leaving some unpartioned
| space available.

Yes, that's what I usually do. I lookup the size a couple of disks of
that size, and make sure that the last partition ends before the size
of the smallest disk, by leaving some cylinders unused.

-- 
Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@altium.nl           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-16 12:39 Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-18 18:34 ` Phillip Susi
2006-12-19 14:16   ` Dick Streefland
2006-12-19 15:40     ` Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-19 16:11       ` Dick Streefland [this message]
2006-12-19 12:22 ` Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-19 14:02   ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-19 15:43     ` Jan Engelhardt

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