[asterisk-users] Saftware RAID1 or Hardware RAID1 with Asterisk

[Zane C.B.]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:08:05 -0700
"shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Still true on CentOS 5.  You can only RAID partitions unless you do
> the LVM thing.  What are the disadvantages compared to being able
> to RAID the whole disk? Maybe for monitoring it's just more to deal
> with but does it make a RAID 1 any less reliable?

Being able to actually mirror a entire disk makes things a lot easier
to work with in all areas.

Why the hell would it make it less reliable? You have mirror
everything on a disk for reliable operation, including the swap.

Their are no disadvantages to mirror a entire disk.