[LUNI] Linux and RAID

[Rick Sullivan]

Jason wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: luni-admin at luni.org [mailto:luni-admin at luni.org]On Behalf Of
> Martin Maney
> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 1:17 PM
> To: luni at luni.org
> Subject: Re: [LUNI] Linux and RAID
> 
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:52:42PM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote:
> > For a CVS server you're potentially wasting a lot of space
> > using mirroring over RAID5. Beyond that there's nothig
> > wrong with RAID itself.
> 
> Could you explain to me how you save a lot of space using RAID5 on one pair
> of 36G drives?  I could make use of that, though on a smaller scale.
> 

RAID 5 REQUIRES AT LEAST 3 DRIVES.

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.6

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html