Re: RAID with Disk ][

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On May 11, 6:29 pm, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
wrote:
> D Finnigan wrote:
> > Simon D. Williams wrote:
> >> On Tue, 11 May 2010, D Finnigan wrote:
>
> >>> Concatenation- Drive 1 and Drive 2 combine to yield a whopping 280KB
> >>> (without needing to flip). The device driver would need to scan both
> >>> catalogs, or make a combined in-memory catalog for a speed-up.
>
> >> I like this idea, but just to follow it to its logical conclusion, why
> >> not
>
> >> include support for a controller card in every slot?
>
> > That's a good idea. And drives larger than the Disk ][ would be nice too.
> > Of
> > course, the 32 MB limitation may still apply. Or perhaps we could work
> > around it.
>
> Now THAT raises *my* interest.
>
> -uso.

Could be interesting -- but given how the freespace volume bits and
root volume map to physical space, it might mean the first drive is
going to be doing a lot of extra disk accesses if blocks are assigned
to drives in a linear fashion.  I recommend striping the blocks across
the drives to avoid hammering one drive to death (or at least the
fragile ancient media in said drive -- these drives will probably keep
working until the end of time)