Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance

[Dick Streefland]

Wiebe Cazemier <halfgaar@xxxxxxx> 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.

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