[Discuss] samba devices and RAID

[pw]

taras wrote:
> using raidtools is silly. Learn mdadm so you don't show your age :)

<Chuckle!> :)
O.K. mdadm it is.

> Dear pw, would I ever describe your ideas as not stupid? 

At least I'm consistently stupid....someone has to be.


>All kidding 
> aside, the NAS would become tied to your one host(where you init the 
> raid) and would be very slow since you'd be doing 2 writes for every one 
> usual write. Plus you'd have all kinds of funny caching issues since 
> there god knows how many caches inbetween smbfs and the raw disk on the 
> NAS.
> For examples on how to do stupid raid tricks with loop stuff see 
> http://www.n8gray.org/blog/2006/09/05/stupid-raid-tricks-with-evms-and-mdadm/ 
> 
> 
> Taras

I figured it would be pretty slow.
Thanks for the link. Will it burn my eyes?


Peter