[ale] two file system questions

[elanda at comstar.net (Ed Landa)]

On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 08:34:00AM -0400, Chris Farris wrote:
> 1) What is the term for having two hard disks mounted as one file
> system?

Sounds like RAID 0.

> 2) Does Linux do this?

Using the MD driver, yes?

> 3) Is this an ok idea for an news server.

A very good idea for a news server, as it allows you to balance your IO load
across multiple spindles.  The only drawback comes into play when you lose a
disk.  You lose the entire filesystem.  For protection against that, you
need to move to RAID 5, but then you lose a little performance.

Ed