On Oct 26, 2004, at 11:48 AM, fandino wrote: > Charles Swiger wrote: >> Disagree. Why else would you use RAID-0 striping? > > speed? Certainly, we are in agreement that the main purpose of RAID-0 is to improve performance. >> [ If you simply want to create a logical volume bigger than the size >> of a physical drive, you can use concatenation instead. ] > > because it doesn't split the load over disks and you get busy disks > and idle disks. Also true, which is why concatenations aren't commonly used, whereas striping is. [ The reason why I mentioned it at all is because creating a larger logical volume than what can fit on a physical drive is a common secondary purpose for RAID-0 modes. For some people, it might even be a primary purpose. ] -- -ChuckReceived on Tue Oct 26 2004 - 14:03:00 UTC
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