* Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca> [020618 17:09]:
> rasputin@idoru.mine.nu writes:
> > 
> > Two quick clarifications please:
> > 
> > 1] Is RAIDframes fundamental unit the partition (i.e. disklabel partitions)
> > or the disk?
> 
> Partition.
> 
> > 2] Can you mix and match different (size, speed) disks/partitions
> > in a RAID-5 set?
> 
> Yes, but:
>   1) The smallest component will be the limiting factor on the size of the 
> RAID set.
>   2) There may be detrimental performance implications to mixing disks of
> different speeds.

That's fine -  I'm nursing an old SS4 with twin 2Gb SCSIs,
so it's not going to be setting any speed records anyway - just a
sacrificial lamb until I get my head round how RF works, then
I'll try it on my main servers.

Just found Peter Clarks BSDtoday article, that should get me started.

Thanks!

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