Re: Software RAID efficiency: Disks vs partitions

Arun Khan <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:58:36 +0530

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Saurabh Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Of course, if you use whole
> disk mdadm then the amount of pain that causes you is high. This could lead
> to you setting the entire server on fire in frustration... which means
> whole disk software raid is inherently less secure.

Can you please elaborate on the "less secure" aspect.    For example,
where I have /dev/md0 with /dev/sda /dev/sdb (entire disk) v/s
/dev/md0 with /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 (with both partitions taking up
the entire disk).

-- Arun Khan