[plug] ext3

[David White]

I now have a raid system for joining. it works better for me.

Tim
At 22:58 06/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Wednesday 06 March 2002 21:29, David White wrote:
> > >>also what is RAID?
> > >
> > >raid is several things, it involves linking up several hard drives to 
> work
> > >as one
> > >as far as i know it can either mirror all the data accross hard drives 
> for
> > >backup or combine all hard drives to create one really big drive
> > >
> > >there are hardware and software based RAID solutions
> > >
> > >
> > >this is just basic...
> > How do i change to raid?
>
>Unless you want high reliability it's probably not worth the bother. I had a
>raid system for a while (RAID-1, aka mirroring).  It was all fun and games
>but the novelty wore off after a while. My recommendation is to keep good
>off-site backups instead.
>
>If you want to join two drives the best thing to do is just mount different
>directories on different drives. This has some draw backs but that's what I
>recommend.
>
>Anthony