[WBEL-users] Software raid and User Mode Linux CD burning on WBEL

[Jan-Albert van Ree]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 05:37:27PM +0300, Alex Georgiev wrote:
 
> Jan-Albert van Ree wrote:
 
> >On Friday 16 July 2004 15:37, Alex Georgiev wrote:

> >Software RAID0 means higher load, and it's a risk to your data... I'd 
> >seriously consider looking for better alternatives (since you mention load 
> >is low, I can't imagine you need the performance of RAID0?) Better two 
> >partitions with both 200GB than one large 400GB with a much higher chance 
> >of failure....
 
> Ohhhh sorry, forgive my ignorance I meant I want to use
> disk mirroring, which is RAID1 I believe!!!!!

Phew :D 
 
> Currently we do cd burning on a debian-stable box with 2.4.20-wolk4.14s.p2
> kernel (WOLK patchset), using SCSI emulation with module ide_scsi.
> Sometimes this module makes the kernel panic, It depends on the CDROMs
> one uses. There is one particular brand which always panics the kernel.
> That is why I want to ensure my ass and move the whole process to UML

Ah ok, I've never used anything but SCSI CD-RW drives.
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