RAID like implementation on a single disk
is there anyway(point in general) to implement RAID on a single disk by making partitions. what iam trying to do is tat iam implementing RAID for testing purposes meanwhile and afterwaeds ill go on purchasing a new disks to implement RAID6. so is there a way....plz respond.
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Generally I would say that you cannot create a RAID set with only one hard disk.
Having said that I reconsidered.:D If you have virtualisation software (example VMWare Server) you can create multiple virtual disk files on the host machines single disk and can try to create a RAID on a guest operating system. This would only be worth doing as a training exercise (if then) Additionally (apart from not protecting against a single drive failure) you will suffer performance issues as the "RAID set" is using the same physical disk and therefore your disk head is going to be very busy. I have not tried this myself and do not guarantee success. |
thanks for the respond Disillusionist.
i will reconsider wat i was going to do. |
Actually you will configure Raid on single disks in most Linux class rooms for test purposes.
You will not get a productive functionality but you could train the usage of the raid toolset. |
Wouldn't that classify as a training exercise?;)
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mdadm will let you create arbitrary raid types out of arbitrary member partitions.
It's not entirely uncommon to have several disks (say, 4 drives) that have a couple partitions each, with each partition participating in some different sort of raid (eg: raid-1 across 4 disks for the really really important stuff, raid5 for the fairly important stuff, raid0 for the performance-sensitive but otherwise unimportant stuff ...). Similarly, it's not at all uncommon to do exactly what you're doing, and mdadm supports just that precisely for that purpose. |
thanks for the tips all.guess i will have to wait for the new disks to be bought till i implement raid6 meanwhile i maybe test raid by tat virtualisation software.
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ok now i have one new drive, can raid be implemented on linux installation disk and a separate new disk?
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