W. Chris Shank on Tue, 28 May 2002 10:56:03 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Linux Raid


ok, so i was right - but spelled wrong (unless your into that sort of
thing:^)? and because you are writing to 2 disks (half data to each), you
increase your effective data writing throughput - right?  

>> which basically does mirroring for data redundancy and/or fast
>> stripping (the actual term escpapes me) which has no redundancy but
>> allows for very
> 
> What, the term striping?  The data is alternately written to, for
> example, two drives.  If each "band" of data were a different color,
> they would look like stripes, at least on a diagram.  Using numbers I
> believe it would go like this: 1357 2468  So, if the odd numbers are
> red and the even numbers are green, you get stripes.
> 
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