From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:37:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002092037.38105.joost@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B71A37B.1020001@ep.mine.nu>
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:03:39 Neil Walker wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing.
>
> Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or,
> actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is
> handled by the BIOS on the RAID controller. The array appears as a
> single drive to the OS and can then be partitioned and formatted like
> any other drive.
>
> Software RAID can be created within existing MSDOS-style partitions -
> indeed must be if the array is to be bootable.
>
> The OP seems to be doing the latter so the comments about removing a
> drive and re-formatting are perfectly valid.
>
> In order not to confuse the matter further, I deliberately left out the
> pseudo-hardware controllers on many modern motherboards. ;)
Don't get me started on those ;)
The reason I use Linux Software Raid is because:
1) I can't afford hardware raid adapters
2) It's generally faster then hardware fakeraid
--
Joost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-09 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-07 16:27 [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 17:30 ` Alexander
2010-02-07 18:19 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-07 19:26 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 18:38 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 19:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-07 19:39 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-07 20:31 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-07 21:59 ` Kyle Bader
2010-02-07 21:42 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-08 2:08 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-08 17:10 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-08 18:52 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-02-08 20:34 ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-09 0:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 12:46 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 13:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 23:37 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 6:31 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10 7:11 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 8:37 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10 8:43 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-09 13:35 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-09 13:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 15:11 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 15:27 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 17:38 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 18:25 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 19:29 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 15:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 17:17 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 20:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-02-09 18:03 ` Neil Walker
2010-02-09 19:37 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2010-02-09 23:52 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 1:16 ` Stroller
2010-02-10 6:59 ` Neil Walker
2010-02-10 7:31 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 1:28 ` Stroller
2010-02-10 11:14 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 16:37 ` Stroller
2010-02-10 17:26 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 20:48 ` Stroller
2010-02-10 0:11 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-02-10 6:48 ` Neil Walker
2010-02-09 17:33 ` Paul Hartman
2010-02-09 7:47 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 23:22 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 7:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2010-02-10 10:56 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 10:53 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 11:03 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-10 11:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-10 11:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-08 5:25 ` Valmor de Almeida
2010-02-08 19:57 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 0:05 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 0:37 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 2:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 17:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 18:21 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 21:13 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-09 22:17 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-02-09 22:54 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10 0:31 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-10 1:27 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-10 7:06 ` Iain Buchanan
2010-02-09 16:31 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-12 9:06 ` Mick
2010-02-12 12:14 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-09 0:47 ` Stroller
2010-02-09 2:20 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-15 0:48 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-15 1:17 ` Willie Wong
2010-02-15 3:17 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-15 18:03 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2010-02-15 23:53 ` Alex Schuster
2010-02-16 17:35 ` Frank Steinmetzger
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