[PLUG] Promise RAID on 2.4.19 - update

[Jeme A Brelin]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Michael Luevane wrote:
> /proc/mdstat shows:
> 
> 	Personalities : [raid0] [raid1]
> 	read_ahead 1024 sectors
> 	md2 : active raid1 md/1[1] md/0[0]
> 	      156301248 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> 	      [>....................]  resync =  0.1% (171864/156301248)
> finish=11895.5min speed=217K/sec
> 	md1 : active raid0 ide/host3/bus0/target1/lun0/disc[1]
> ide/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc[0]
> 	      156301312 blocks 8k chunks
> 
> 	md0 : active raid0 ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/disc[1]
> ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/disc[0]
> 	      156301312 blocks 8k chunks
> 
> 	unused devices: <none>

Just curious, but why did you go with a raid1 of two raid0s instead of a
great big raid5?

Seems to me that you'd get just as much redundancy and 50% more drive
capacity out of a raid5 array of the four disks you've got.

> My only question is this:  how the heck do I mount the RAID?

Did you put a filesystem on the device?

J.
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