Re: MD?

Harald Milz (hm@linux.de)
Wed, 14 Feb 96 00:37 MET


Leonard N. Zubkoff (lnz@dandelion.com) wrote:
>
> In the Sequent documentation on using their Volume Manager for building striped
> configurations, it's always recommended to have an odd number of devices in the
> stripe for exactly these reasons. It makes sure critical file system data
> structures are spread across all the drives, both for robustness and for
> performance since those areas may well be hot spots.

If data integrity is your concern, you wouldn't want to use striping
without data redundancy anyway, under no circumstances.

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Harald Milz (Harald.Milz@munich.netsurf.de)

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