Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> On a machine with two SATA disks, is it a good idea to create
> RAID-1 (mirror) and RAID-0 (stripe) arrays on the same set of
> disks?  I'd like to have the benefits of RAID-1 for my system
> and data partitions and RAID-0 for all recoverable data like
> /tmp, cvs trees, obj and work dirs, ...

As a piece of trivia, this is exactly what Intel offered on its
(windows) desktop boards a few years ago (don't know it they still do) -
they called it something like "matrix raid". So, if it's supported, it's
technically not a bad idea as long as you normally don't use the two
parts concurrently.