On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:32:30AM +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> I use a separate raid device for each partition - here that's root,
> swap, /var and data/home-dirs.  My logic is that if you get a bad sector
> somewhere, it doesn't degrade every filesystem on the disk (as it would
> if you have all your partitions on a single raid mirror) and just
> degrades the filesystem on the partition that has the bad sector.

Do you have a way to replace the disk with the bad sector without
degrading the rest of the filesystems?

Or is this just a performance gain for the period of time leading up to
when you replace the disk?

Ben